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Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesaccording advantages afford agriculture ancient appears arts capital chap circulating medium circumstances commerce concerning connexion consequence consideration considered corn cowries cultivation currency degree demand division of labour doctrine Economists effects employed England equal Europe exchangeable value fact farms farther favour former France gold and silver Government greater human Hume idea illustration important improvement increase industry land laws Lectures less mankind manner manufactures marriage means ment merchants modern Montesquieu nature necessarily necessary number of inhabitants object observations occasion operation opinion particular passage Pays de Caux Political Economy Polygamy population precious metals present principles profits proportion quantity question rate of interest reason regulate remarks respect revenue Scotland Sir James Steuart Sir William Petty Smith society species speculations Stewart subsistence supply supposed tenth edition tion trade truth value of money Wealth of Nations wheat whole writers Popular passagesPage 328 - The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise.' - 'How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad; that driveth oxen; and is occupied in their labours; and whose talk is of bullocks? Page 350 - The value of any commodity, therefore, to the person who possesses it, and who means not to use or consume it himself, but to exchange it for other commodities, is equal to the quantity of labour which it enables him to purchase or command. Labour, therefore, is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities. Page 17 - What the state ought to take upon itself to direct by the public wisdom, and what it ought to leave, with as little interference as possible, to individual discretion. Page 391 - The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravitating. Different accidents may sometimes keep them suspended a good deal above it, and sometimes force them down even somewhat below it. But whatever may be the obstacles which hinder them from settling in this center of repose and continuance, they are constantly tending towards it. Page 353 - Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased; and its value, to those who possess it, and who want to exchange it for some new productions, is precisely equal to the quantity of labour which it can enable them to purchase or command. Page 353 - The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it. What everything is really worth to the man who has acquired it, and who wants to dispose of it or exchange it for something else, is the toil and trouble which it can save to himself, and which it can impose upon other people. Page 276 - The sovereign, for example, with all the officers both of justice and war who serve under him, the whole army and navy, are unproductive labourers. They are the servants of the public, and are maintained by a part of the annual produce of the industry of other people. Page 354 - As soon as stock has accumulated in the hands of particular persons, some of them will naturally employ it in setting to work industrious people, whom they will supply with materials and subsistence, in order to make a profit by the sale of their work, or by what their labour adds to the value of the materials. Page 324 - The shepherd, the sorter of the wool, the wool-comber or carder, the dyer, the scribbler, the spinner, the weaver, the fuller, the dresser, with many others, must all join their different arts in order to complete even this homely production. Page 417 - As the colony increases, the profits of stock gradually diminish. When the most fertile and best situated lands have been all occupied, less profit can be made by the cultivation of what is inferior both in soil and situation, and less interest can be afforded for the stock which is so employed. References to this bookFrom Google ScholarDoctoring Adam Smith: The Fable of the Diamonds and Water ParadoxMichael V White - 2002 - History of Political Economy Political Economy As Moral Philosophy: Dugald Stewart Of EdinburghSALIM RASHID - 1987 - Australian Economic Papers John Stuart Mill, John Herschel, and the'Probability of Causes'John V Strong - 1978 - PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association References from web pagesThe collected works of Dugald Stewart On Ricardo's Method: The Scottish Connection Considered ... David K. Nartonis - Louis Agassiz and the Platonist Story of ... Dugald Stewart on intellectual character THE PRIMACY OF COMMON SENSE: DUGALD STEWART AND THE SCOTTISH ... 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