 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 - 1829 - 477 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Maitland Earl of Lauderdale - Business & Economics - 1996 - 184 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; and the reproduction must always be in proportion to the... | |
 | Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey - Business & Economics - 1997 - 420 pages
...by a fall in the price of corn. I cannot agree with Mr. Malthus in his approbation of the opinion of Adam Smith, "that no equal quantity of productive...occasion so great a re-production as in agriculture." I suppose that he must have overlooked the term ever in this passage, otherwise the opinion is more... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood, Steven Kates - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 304 pages
...lapses into physiocratic theory: "I cannot agree with Mr. Malthus in his approbation of the opinion of Adam Smith, 'that no equal quantity of productive...occasion so great a re-production as in agriculture.' I suppose that he must have overlooked the term ever in this passage, otherwise the opinion is more... | |
 | Terry Peach - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 378 pages
...work of men, 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 short, land is itself a great fixed capital— the gift of heaven to the human race: whereas air,... | |
 | David Ricardo - Business & Economics - 2005 - 372 pages
...quantity which falls to the share of the farmer, but also that which is paid as rent to the landlord. Mr. Malthus says, "It has been justly observed by Adam Smith that no equal quantity of productive labor employed in manufactures can ever occasion so great a reproduction as in agriculture." If Adam... | |
 | Margaret Schabas - Science - 2009 - 208 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" (364). The gift of nature could not be more sharply contrasted... | |
 | David Ricardo - Business & Economics - 2006 - 133 pages
...by a fall in the price of corn. I cannot agree with Mr Malthus in his approbation of the opinion of Adam Smith, "that no equal quantity of productive labour employed in manufactures, can ever as occasion so great a re-production as in agriculture." I suppose that he must have overlooked the... | |
 | David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch - Economics - 2000 - 636 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 reproducThe rise of rent is always the effect of the increasing wealth of the country, and of the difficulty... | |
 | Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - Commerce - 1851 - 830 pages
...agricultural industry, which mo*t political economists consider peculiarly productive. Mr. Malthus says : " II has been justly observed by Adam Smith, that no equal quantity of productive labor, employed in manufactures, can ever occasion so great a re-production as in agriculture." Commenting... | |
| |
