 | Michael Lewis - Economic policy - 2007 - 1476 pages
...another, is much greater than we should at first view be apt to imagine it. It is impossible to pass very quickly from one kind of work to another, that...country weaver, who cultivates a small farm, must loose a good deal of time in passing from his loom to the field, and from the field to his loom. When... | |
 | Henry Dunning Macleod - Economics - 1886 - 402 pages
...another is much greater than we should at first view be apt to imagine it. It is impossible to pass very quickly from one kind of work to another, that is carried on in a different place and quite different tools. A country weaver who cultivates a small farm, must lose a deal of time in passing... | |
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Secondly, the advantage which is gained by saving the time commonly lost in passing from one sort of work to another, is much greater than we should at first view be apt to imagine it. It is impossible to pass very quickly from one kind of work to another,... 
