 | Dublin city, univ - 1883 - 510 pages
...taxes. 9. Draw up a Syllabus of a short course of Class Lectures on Taxation. Afternoon Paper. 1. "A man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human )tfe."—Adatn Smith. "A man... | |
 | Archibald Weir - Europe - 1886 - 644 pages
...Wealth is never precisely defined in its pages, but from the outset it is assumed that " every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life ; " * and the work begins... | |
 | VAN BUREN DENSLOW - 1888 - 826 pages
...economic aspect, or name. * Adam Smith (" Wealth of Nations " by McCnlloch, p. 13), says : " Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he...necessaries, conveniences and amusements of human life. But afttr the division of labor has once thoroughly taken place, it is but a very small part of these with... | |
 | George Lacy - Economics - 1888 - 386 pages
...the only form of wealth, but this idea is now universally repudiated.2 Smith says that " every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life ; " s but on the next page... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - English literature - 1891 - 728 pages
...if it were identical with the quantity of labor by which it was produced. He says : — "Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life. But after the division... | |
 | James Bonar - Economics - 1893 - 438 pages
...of labour is part of the national wealth. Wealth means consumable goods of every sort. " Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy," etc., page 13. Unfortunately in the Wealth of Nations there is no complete theory... | |
 | James Bonar - Economics - 1893 - 440 pages
...of labour is part of the national wealth. Wealth means consumable goods of every sort. " Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy," etc., page 13. Unfortunately in the Wealth of Nations there is no complete theory... | |
 | Frank Loomis Palmer - Labor - 1894 - 252 pages
...of proportionate amounts of labor that determine the exchangeable value of commodities. " Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life. ... It is but a very small... | |
 | John Borden - Money - 1897 - 240 pages
...grain enough in Egypt to feed its people, and also to supply others. Wants. Adam Smith said : " A man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life." A savage and a civilized man differ... | |
 | Albert Conser Whitaker - Economics - 1904 - 240 pages
...contained in the following quotation : " Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and...amusements of human life. But after the division of labour has once thoroughly taken place, it is but a very small part of those with 1 P. 49. Torrens,... | |
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Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life. 
