 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1885 - 626 pages
...forty-eight thousand pins, might be considered as making four thousand eight hundred pins in a day. But if they had all wrought separately and independently,...of labour — from a not very important branch of industry certainly, the manufacture of playing cards. "It is said by those engaged in the business,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1887 - 722 pages
...forty-eight thousand pins, might be considered as making four thousand eight hundred pins in a day. But if they had all wrought separately and independently,...them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a day." § 3. The causes of the increased efficiency given to labor by the division of employments are some... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1888 - 628 pages
...forty-eight thousand pins, might be considered as making four thousand eight hundred pins in a day. But if they had all wrought separately and independently,...still stronger example of the effects of division of labour—from a not very important branch of industry certainly, the manufacture of playing cards.... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1889 - 850 pages
...men could make about 4H.OOO pins in . a day, whereas, if they worked separately and independently, they certainly could not each of them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a day. Adam Smith öfters the following reasons why the division of labour secures greater efficiency : '... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 870 pages
...ten men could make about 48,000 pins in a day, whereas, if they worked separately and independently, they certainly could not each of them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a dav. Adam Smith offers the following reasons why the division of labour secures greater efficiency... | |
 | Langford Lovell Price - Economics - 1891 - 226 pages
...upwards of four thousand eight hundred ; but, had they " all wrought separately and independently," " they certainly could not each of them have made twenty, perhaps not one, pin in a day." This advaritagp "f thp division of labour has been curiously confirmed by later investigation.1 Use,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1892 - 628 pages
...forty-eight thousand pins, might be considered as making four thousand eight hundred pins in a day. But if they had all wrought separately and independently,...of labour — from a not very important branch of industry certainly, the manufacture of playing cards. " It is said by those engaged in the business,... | |
 | ROBERT CHAMBERS - 1892 - 882 pages
...ten men could make about 48,000 pin* in a day, whereas, if they worked separately and independently, they certainly could not each of them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a dav. Adam Smith often* the following reasons why tlie division of laliour secures greater efficiency... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1894 - 644 pages
...forty-eight thousand pins, might be considered as making four thousand eight hundred pins in a day. But if they had all wrought separately and independently,...perhaps not one pin in a day." M. Say furnishes a still sh-ongei example of the effects of division of labour — from a not very important branch of industry... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1894 - 526 pages
...forty-eight thousand pins, might be considered as making four thousand eight hundred pins in a day. But if they had all wrought separately and independently,...them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a day ; that is, certainly, not the two hundred and fortieth, perhaps not the four thousand eight hundredth... | |
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Those ten persons, therefore, could make among them upwards of forty-eight thousand pins in a day. Each person, therefore, making a tenth part of forty-eight thousand pins, might be considered as making four thousand eight hundred pins in a day. But if... 
