 | Ellen Messer-Davidow, David R. Shumway, David Sylvan - History - 1993 - 480 pages
...pins in a day. But if they had all wrought separately and independently . . . they could certainly not each of them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a day" (Wealth 110). The key to Adam Smith's model of the division of labor is clearly the efficiency and... | |
 | David Needham, Robert Dransfield - Business & Economics - 1994 - 772 pages
...wTought separately and independently, and without any of them having being educated to this particular business, they certainly could not each of 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,... | |
 | Dorien J. DeTombe, Cor van Dijkum - Social sciences - 1996 - 312 pages
...pin factory, ten men specialized in their work were each able to rum out about 4,g00 pins per day. "But if they had all wrought separately and independently,...have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a day... One man draws out the wire, another straightens it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds... | |
 | Joyce Oldham Appleby - Knowledge, Sociology of - 1996 - 578 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... | |
 | Louis Putterman, Randy Kroszner - Business & Economics - 1996 - 404 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,...and without any of them having been educated to this particular business, they certainly could not each of them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in... | |
 | Robert L. Heilbroner - Business & Economics - 1996 - 376 pages
...fortyeight 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... | |
 | Ake E. Andersson, N.E. Sahlin - Reference - 1996 - 168 pages
...Academic Publishers. Primed in the Netherlands. as making four thousand eight hundred pins in a day. Bui 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... | |
 | Patrick Murray - Anthologies - 1997 - 510 pages
...eight hundred pins in a day. But if they had all wrought separately and independently, and \vithout any of them having been educated to this peculiar...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... | |
 | Anthony Cooney - Distribution (Economic theory) - 1998 - 46 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." Whether Ruskin had this passage in mind I do not know, but he i also comments upon the manufacture... | |
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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... 
