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" 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 135
by Charles Babbage - 1832 - 320 pages
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The Economic Nature of the Firm: A Reader

Louis Putterman, Randy Kroszner - Business & Economics - 1996 - 404 pages
...that of several in an improved one. 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...
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Knowledge and Postmodernism in Historical Perspective

Joyce Oldham Appleby - Knowledge, Sociology of - 1996 - 578 pages
...another, as manufactures. . . . 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...
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Lauderdale's Notes on Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations

James Maitland Earl of Lauderdale - Business & Economics - 1996 - 184 pages
...which the same number of people are capable of performing, in consequence of the division of labour, is owing to three different circumstances; first,...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...
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Reflections on Commercial Life: An Anthology of Classic Texts from Plato to ...

Patrick Murray - Anthologies - 1997 - 504 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...
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Reflections on Commercial Life: An Anthology of Classic Texts from Plato to ...

Patrick Murray - Anthologies - 1997 - 510 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...
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Teachings from the Worldly Philosophy

Robert L. Heilbroner - Business & Economics - 1996 - 376 pages
...quantity of work, which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are bom] capable of performing, is owing to three different...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...
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Technology, Innovation and Industrial Economics: Institutionalist ...

William E. Cole - Business & Economics - 1998 - 174 pages
...on this proposition as follows: 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...
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The History of Economics: In Its Relation to Social Development

Werner Stark - Business & Economics - 1998 - 96 pages
...its operation (9) as follows : " This 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" : 1 . improved dexterity, 2. saving of time, and 3. application of machinery. For this third point...
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The Enlightenment

David Williams - History - 1999 - 534 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...
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Intermediate Microeconomics: Neoclassical and Factually-oriented Models

Lester O. Bumas - Business & Economics - 1999 - 560 pages
...This great increase in the quantity' of work, which is a consequence of the division of labour ... is owing to three different circumstances; first,...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...
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