 No equal quantity of productive labour employed in manufactures can ever occasion so great a reproduction. In them nature does nothing; man does all; and the reproduction must always be in proportion to the strength of the agents that occasion it.  An essay on the external corn trade - Page 150by Robert Torrens - 1826 - 416 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Dugald Stewart - Economics - 1855 - 490 pages
...of agricultural and manufacturing labour as being both productive, though not in an equal degree. " No equal quantity of productive labour employed in...occasion so great a reproduction as in agriculture. In them nature does nothing, man does all ; and the reproduction must always be in proportion to the... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1854 - 580 pages
...her labour costs no expense, its produce has its value, as well as that of the most expensive workman No equal quantity of productive labour employed in manufactures, can ever occasion so great reproduction. In them nature does nothing ; man does all: and the reproduction must always be in proportion... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 496 pages
...of agricultural and manufacturing labour as being both productive, though not in an equal degree. " No equal quantity of productive labour employed in...occasion so great a reproduction as in agriculture. In them nature docs nothing, man does all ; and the reproduction must always be in proportion to the... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 490 pages
...of agricultural and manufacturing labour as being both productive, though not in an equal degree. " No equal quantity of productive labour employed in...occasion so great a reproduction as in agriculture. In them nature does nothing, man does all ; and the reproduction must always be in proportion to the... | |
 | William Atkinson - Economics - 1858 - 698 pages
...between them. The passages occur in the second book. Treating of agricultural production, he says, "No equal quantity of productive labour employed in...manufactures can ever occasion so great a reproduction. In them nature does nothing, man does all ; and the reproduction must always be in proportion to the... | |
 | Joannes Franciscus Benjamin Baert - Economics - 1858 - 300 pages
...no expense , its produce has u its value, as well as that of the most expensive // workmen." — // No equal quantity of productive // labour employed in manufactures can ever occasion n so great a reproduction. In them nature does nothing // — man does all." — // The capital employed... | |
 | Frédéric Bastiat - Economics - 1860 - 382 pages
...work of man. It is seldom less than a fourth, and frequently more than a third of the whole produce. No equal quantity of productive labour employed in...manufactures can ever occasion so great a reproduction. In them nature does nothing ; man does all."t Is it possible in as few words to include a greater number... | |
 | Frédéric Bastiat - Economics - 1860 - 580 pages
...work of man. It is seldom less than a fourth, and frequently more than a third of the whole produce. No equal quantity of productive labour employed in...manufactures can ever occasion so great a reproduction. In them nature does nothing; man does all."f Is it possible in as few words to include a greater number... | |
 | Henry Dunning Macleod - Economics - 1875 - 556 pages
...equal capital puts into motion a greater quantity of productive labour than that of the farmer. ... No equal quantity of productive labour employed in...manufactures can ever occasion so great a reproduction. In them nature does nothing— man does all; and the reproduction must always be in proportion to the... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1875 - 808 pages
...work of man. It it seldom less than a fourth, and frequently more than a third of the whole produce. No equal quantity of productive labour employed in...manufactures can ever occasion so great a reproduction. In them nature does nothing; man does all; and the reproduction must always be in proportion to the... | |
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