This great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are capable of performing, is owing to three different circumstances; first, to the increase of dexterity in every particular workman;... On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures - Page 135by Charles Babbage - 1832 - 320 pagesFull view - About this book
| Charles Baker - Education - 1857 - 438 pages
...famine. different trades — The consequence is a great increase in the quantity of work, owing to three circumstances: first, to the increase of dexterity...particular workman ; secondly, to the saving of time which would be lost in passing from one species of work to another; and, lastly, to the invention of machines,... | |
| Frédéric Bastiat - Economics - 1860 - 580 pages
...demonstrated its influence on Labour. " The great increase in the quantity of work, which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are capable of performing, is owing to three circumstances," says that celebrated Economist ; " First, to the increase of dexterity in every particular... | |
| Frédéric Bastiat - Economics - 1860 - 382 pages
...demonstrated its influence on Labour. " The great increase in the quantity of work, which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are capable of performing, is owing to three circumstances," says that celebrated Economist ; " First, to the increase of dexterity in every particular... | |
| James William Gilbart - 1871 - 678 pages
...increase in the quantity of work which, in consequence of tho division of labour, the same numlter of people are capable of performing, is owing to three...dexterity in every particular workman ; secondly, to tho saving of time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another ; and lastly,... | |
| Adam Smith - 1875 - 808 pages
...which no country can well subsist. This great increase of the quantity of work, which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people...every particular workman; secondly to the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another ; and lastly, to the... | |
| Henry Dunning Macleod - Economics - 1875 - 574 pages
...accomplished. 58. Smith says that the great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people...performing is owing to three different circumstances : 1st, to the increase of dexterity in every particular workman ; 2ndly, to the saving of the time... | |
| Jeremiah Joyce - 1877 - 260 pages
...can pretend to no such competition, p. 8. The increase in the quantity of work, which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are capable of performing, is owing to three 1 different circumstances, p. 9. (1.) To the increase of dexterity in every particular workman; by... | |
| Robert Grant Webster - Commerce - 1880 - 466 pages
...of labour, and sums up thus : ' This great increase in the quantity of work, which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people...circumstances — First, to the increase of dexterity in each particular workman; secondly, to the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from... | |
| William Hurrell Mallock - Democracy - 1882 - 292 pages
...Kogers : ' This great increase,' says the former, ' of the quantity of work, which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people...every particular workman ; secondly, to the saving of the time which is usually lost in passing from one species of work to another • and lastly, to the... | |
| William Hurrell Mallock - Equality - 1882 - 292 pages
...Eogers : ' This great increase,' says the former, ' of the quantity of work, which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people...every particular workman; secondly, to the saving of the time which is usually lost in passing from one species of work to another ; and lastly, to the... | |
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