 | R. J. Barry Jones - Business & Economics - 2001 - 624 pages
...'[t]he inducement to invest is limited by the size of the market' (ibid.: 6), echoes ADAM SMITH'S dictum that 'the division of labour is limited by the extent of the market' (Thirl wall, 1994: 1 82). The size of the market is determined by productivity, which in turn... | |
 | W. S. F. Pickering - Durkheimian school of sociology - 2001 - 576 pages
...l'Université du Québec, forthcoming). 16 Milne-Edwards (n. 15 supra), p. 36. 17 Wealth of Nations, Chapter 3, "That the Division of Labour is Limited by the Extent of the Market." 38 C. Limoges: "Introduction", pp. 7-22 of C. Linné: L'équilibre de la nature, trans. B.... | |
 | Christina Petsoulas - Hayek - 2001 - 220 pages
...population growth and the evolution of the institutions of market order.9 He had noticed, specifically, that the 'division of labour is limited by the extent of the market, and that population increase is crucial to the prosperity of a country'.10 Though Hayek restricts... | |
 | Edith Tilton Penrose, Christos Pitelis - Business & Economics - 2002 - 340 pages
..."subjective" productive opportunity of the firm' (Penrose, 1959, p. 42). 1 Like Smith (1933, p. 4), who saw that the division of labour is limited by the extent of the market. Penrose saw that opportunities could be limited by demand, while markets could be extended... | |
 | Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - Enlightenment - 2003 - 496 pages
...populous countries, they would call in the assistance of those workmen. (Wealth of Nations, I, ch.3, That the Division of Labour is limited by the Extent of the Market', paras 1—2) EDWARD GIBBON Edward Gibbon (1737-94), son of an Anglican squire, was born at... | |
 | Adam Smith - Business & Economics - 2004 - 260 pages
...where every man may purchase whatever part of the produce of other men's talents he has occasion for. That the Division of Labour is Limited by the Extent of the Market As it is the power of exchanging that gives occasion to the division of labour, so the extent... | |
 | David Christian - History - 2004 - 676 pages
...of The Wealth of Nations explains the link between markets and the division of labor in its title: "That the Division of Labour Is Limited by the Extent of the Market." In other words, expanding networks of exchange encouraged specialization, which stimulated... | |
 | Bernard Beaudreau - Capital market - 2004 - 195 pages
...underincome, however, appears, albeit indirectly, in The Wealth of Nations. In Chapter III of Book I, entitled "That the Division of Labour is limited by the Extent of the Market," Smith argues that the division of labor—read, mechanization—is limited by the extent of... | |
 | William L. Garrison, David M. Levinson - Transportation - 2005 - 471 pages
...reader. APPENDIX Adam Smith, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Chapter 3, "That the Division of Labour Is Limited by the Extent of the Market" As it is the power of exchanging that gives occasion to the division of labour, so the extent... | |
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