„The greatest improvements in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment, with which it is anywhere directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.“ (p. 14) #Smith #labour #DivisionOfLabour
Schlagwort-Archive: Smith
Smith: War
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„But the moment in which war begins, or rather the moment in which it appears likely to begin, the army must be augmented, the fleet must be fitted out, the garrisoned towns must be put into a posture of defence; that army, that fleet, those garrisoned towns, must be furnished with arms, ammunition, and provisions. An immediate and great expense must be incurred in that moment of immediate danger, which will not wait for the gradual and slow returns of the new taxes. In this exigency, government can have no other resource but in borrowing.“ (p. 1357) #Smith #war #borrow
Smith: Cock-fighting
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„A passion for cock-fighting has ruined many.“ (p. 1353) #Smith #cock-fighting
Smith: Division of Labour
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„When the division of labour has been once thoroughly established, it is but a very small part of a man’s wants which the produce of his own labour can supply. He supplies the far greater part of them by exchanging that surplus part of the produce of his own labour, which is over and above his own consumption, for such parts of the produce of other men’s labour as he has occasion for. Every man thus lives by exchanging, or becomes, in some measure, a merchant, and the society itself grows to be what is properly a commercial society.“ (p. 41) #Smith #DivisionOfLabour
Waste
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„The transformation of waste is perhaps the oldest preoccupation of man“.
Smith, Patti, 25th Floor, Album: Easter, Arista Records, March 3, 1978