 | Erasmus Peshine Smith - Economics - 1853 - 282 pages
...earns while he is employed must not only maintain him while he is idle, but, Dr. Smith suggests, " make him some compensation for those anxious and desponding...so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion." A gear is the least period that includes the vicissitudes of the seasons, and of the varying wants... | |
 | Nassau William Senior - Economics - 1854 - 256 pages
...times as high. Adam Smith, indeed, thinks that his annual wages ought to he higher than the average, to make him some compensation for those anxious and desponding...so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion. But this evil is compensated, and, in most dispositions, more than compensated, by the diminution of... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - Labor - 1854 - 138 pages
...the time they are necessarily idle. And they ought also to afford them, as Dr. Smith has remarked, some compensation for those anxious and desponding...so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion. This principle shows the fallacy of the opinion so generally entertained respecting the great earnings... | |
 | Francis Bowen - Economics - 1856 - 590 pages
...journeyman may be pretty sure of employment almost every day in the year that he is willing to work. A mason or bricklayer, on the contrary, can work neither...so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion." It is easy to see that the person who can be employed only a part of the time onght to receive higher... | |
 | Francis Bowen - Economics - 1859 - 576 pages
...journeyman may be pretty sure of employment almost every day in the year that he is willing to work. A mason or bricklayer, on the contrary, can work neither...so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion." It is easy to see that the person who can be employed only a part of the time ought to receive higher... | |
 | Francis Bowen - Economics - 1859 - 586 pages
...journeyman may be pretty sure of employment almost every day in the year that he is willing to work. A mason or bricklayer, on the contrary, can work neither...so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion." It is easy to see that the person who can be employed only a part of the time ought to receive higher... | |
 | Erasmus Peshine Smith - Economics - 1868 - 274 pages
...he earns while he is employed must not only maintain him while he is idle, but, Dr. Smith suggests, "make him some compensation for those anxious and...so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion." A year is the least period that includes the vicissitudes of the seasons, and of the varying wants... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1869 - 576 pages
...any. What he earns, therefore, while he is employed, mnst not only maintain him while lie is idle, hut make him some compensation for those anxious and desponding...so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion. Where the computed earnings of the greater part of manufacturers, accordingly, are nearly upon a level... | |
 | Francis Bowen - Economics - 1870 - 586 pages
...at all other times depends upon the occasional calls of his customers. He is liable, in consqeuence, to be frequently without any. What he earns, therefore,...so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion. It is easy to see that the person who can be employed only a P^' of the time ouykt to receive higher... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1870 - 512 pages
...at all other times depends upon the occasional calls of his customers. He is liable, in consqeuence, to be frequently without any. What he earns, therefore,...so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion." It is easy to see that the person who can be employed only a part of the time ought to receive higher... | |
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A mason or bricklayer, on the contrary, can work neither in hard frost nor in foul weather, and his employment at all other times depends upon the occasional calls of his customers. He is liable, in consequence, to be frequently without any. What he earns,... 
