| Adam Smith - 1822 - 562 sider
...labour encourages marriage. The children, during the tender years of infancy, are well fed and properly taken care of, and when they are grown up, the value...people oppress the inferior one. But in new colonies, ;X the interest of the two superior orders obliges them to treat the inferior one with more generosity... | |
| 1838 - 266 sider
...labour encourages marriage. The children, during the tender years of infancy, are well fed and properly taken care of ; and when they are grown up, the value...superior orders of people oppress the inferior one ;* * No greater proof of the truth of this remark is wanting than the increased and increasing call... | |
| Jeremiah Joyce - 1880 - 274 sider
...maintenance. Arrived at maturity, they follow without difficulty in the steps of their fathers, pp. 144, 145. In other countries, rent and profit eat up wages, and the two superior orders of the people oppress the inferior one. But in new colonies the inferior order is treated with humanity,... | |
| 1892 - 602 sider
...arrived at maturity the high price of labor and the low price of land enable them to establish themsd\rs in the same manner as their fathers did before them....people oppress the inferior one. But in new colonies (lie interest of the two superior orders obliges tliciu to treat the inferior one with more generosity... | |
| Morrison Isaac Swift - 1903 - 328 sider
...from Adam Smith, the father of all earthly wisdom, who let it escape him that, except in new colonies, 'rent and profit eat up wages, and the two superior orders of people oppress the inferior one.' Smith was the father among other things, of Anarchy, for he said: 'Civil government, so far as it is... | |
| Richard Charles Mills - 1915 - 402 sider
...labour encourages marriage. The children, during the tender years of infancy, are well fed and properly taken care of, and when they are grown up the value...inferior one. But in new colonies the interest of the superior orders obliges them to treat the inferior one with more generosity and humanity; at least... | |
| Du Bois Henry Loux - 1920 - 296 sider
...struggle with to barely get on. Adam Smith had said to the tenants of England, as well as to all workers : "Rent and profit eat up wages, and the two superior orders of people oppress the inferior one." Ricardo, thereafter, has something to say on the fluctuating price of gold which plays the great mass... | |
| Phyllis Deane - 1978 - 260 sider
...and manufacturers found their interests opposed to farmers and landlords. To quote: 'rent and profits eat up wages, and the two superior orders of people oppress the inferior one.'22 And again in a very famous passage: 'People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for... | |
| Istvan Hont, Michael Ignatieff - 1983 - 388 sider
...extend the division of labour which rendered labour 'dear' and work 'cheap'. To be sure, he admitted, 'rent and profit eat up wages and the two superior orders of the people oppress the inferior one'.i7 But because modern economies were the first capable of sustained... | |
| John Cunningham Wood - 1993 - 872 sider
...every court in Europe. Private interests cannot be trusted to take care of the roads and posts. In old countries, rent and profit eat up wages, and the two superior orders oppress the others. The division of labor impairs the intelligence, enterprise, and moral character... | |
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