 | Percy Kinnaird - Banks and banking - 1904 - 346 pages
...reasoning to meet these conditions. In discussing the measure or value of products, he writes: " 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... | |
 | William Ramage Lawson - Great Britain - 1904 - 426 pages
...produce from other nations. — 'The Wealth of Nations': opening sentence of Introduction. 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. — Book I. chap. iv.... | |
 | Albert Conser Whitaker - Economics - 1904 - 216 pages
...judged a failure, for it really avoids the question of ultimate explanation. It begins: " 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." Air is a necessity to... | |
 | William Ramage Lawson - Great Britain - 1906 - 428 pages
...produce from other nations. — 'The Wealth of Nations': opening sentence of Introduction. 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. — Book I. chap. iv.... | |
 | Archibald Weir - Europe - 1907 - 404 pages
...systems. 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." The work begins by asserting... | |
 | Albion W. Small - Economics - 1907 - 290 pages
...present time, at least in England and the United States. The paragraph reads as follows: 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... | |
 | Herbert Joseph Davenport - Economics - 1907 - 780 pages
...distinction between riches and value later made so prominent by Ricardo. Smith says that "every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life." Possibly he would himself have... | |
 | James Bonar - Economics - 1909 - 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... | |
 | Warren Edwin Brokaw - Economics - 1927 - 396 pages
...of exchange is, not equivalence of results, but equivalence of work. Adam Smith said 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." It is easy to see then,... | |
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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. 
