The division of labour was limited by the extent of the market.
ADAM SMITH
ADAM SMITH
Adam Smith on limitation
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Adam SmithAdam Smith An English university is a sanctuary in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices find shelter and protection after they have been . Hunted out of every corner of the world.
Adam SmithAdam Smith To feel much for others and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature.
Adam SmithAdam Smith A power to dispose of estates for ever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fulness of it belongs to every generation, and the preceding one can have no right to bind it up from posterity. Such extension of property is quite unnatural.
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Adam SmithAdam Smith As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
Adam SmithAdam Smith Whatever work he does, beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance, can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own.
Adam SmithAdam Smith A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it’s people.
Adam SmithAdam Smith Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.
Adam SmithAdam Smith The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
Adam SmithAdam Smith What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
Adam SmithAdam Smith In general, if any branch of trade, or any division of labour, be advantageous to the public, the freer and more general the competition, it will always be the more so.
Adam SmithAdam Smith The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.
Adam SmithAdam Smith A gardener who cultivates his own garden with his own hands, unites in his own person the three different characters, of landlord, farmer, and labourer. His produce, therefore, should pay him the rent of the first, the profit of the second, and the wages of the third.
Adam SmithAdam Smith The proprietor of stock is necessarily a citizen of the world, and is not necessarily attached to any particular country.
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