| Albion W. Small - 1907 - 290 страници
...serve. The opening paragraph of Smith's introduction is strictly consistent with these claims, viz. : The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in... | |
| Herbert Joseph Davenport - 1907 - 780 страници
...strict proportion. At any rate, such is the gist of the doctrine stated by Adam Smith: "The annual labor of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life." Therefore, accordingly as this output "bears a greater or smaller... | |
| Louis Boudianoff Boudin - 1907 - 298 страници
...contemporaries. Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations opens with the following passage : " The annual labor of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in... | |
| James Bonar - 1909 - 440 страници
...troubling himself about definitions, the author launches in medias res in his first sentence : — " The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniencies of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in... | |
| Joseph Shield Nicholson - 1909 - 328 страници
...Smith's whole treatment of the Wealth of Nations is unquestionably labour. The opening sentence runs : " The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in... | |
| Joseph Shield Nicholson - 1909 - 324 страници
...Smith's whole treatment of the Wealth of Nations is unquestionably labour. The opening sentence runs : " The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in... | |
| Harold A. Russell - 1910 - 250 страници
...happiness. Adam Smith seems to have stated this simple truth far better than his more popular successors : " The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life, which it annually consumes and which consist always either in... | |
| Lewis Henry Haney - 1911 - 598 страници
...maritime pursuits. Adam Smith makes much of labor. The first words in his book are, " The annual labor of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life ; " and, as will beseen-iater. Jig makes ^a It must not be inferredj^at... | |
| 1912 - 648 страници
...Handworterbuch der Staatswissenschaften, Vol. 6, p. 756.) 3"Wealth of Nations," Vol. I, p. 1. "The annual labor of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in... | |
| Fritz Berolzheimer - 1912 - 564 страници
...HandwSrterbuch der Staatswissenschaften, Vol. 6, p. 756.) 2"Wealth of Nations," Vol. I, p. 1. "The annual labor of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in... | |
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