 | Adam Smith - 1811 - 532 pages
...countries rent and profit eat up wages, and the two superior orders of people oppress the inferior one ; but in new colonies, the interest of the two superior...where that inferior one is not in a state of slavery. Wastelands, of the greatest natural fertility, are to be had for a trifle. The increase of revenue... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - 1880 - 274 pages
...people oppress the inferior one. But in new colonies the inferior order is treated with humanity, if it is not in a state of slavery. Waste lands of the greatest fertility are to be had for a trifle. The profit of the proprietor is very great, but this cannot be... | |
 | Economics - 1892 - 602 pages
...oppress the inferior one. But in new colonies (lie interest of the two superior orders obliges tliciu to treat the inferior one with more generosity and...at least, where that inferior one is not in a state oí slavery. Waste lands, of the greatest natural fertility, are to IK- had for a trifle. The increase... | |
 | Joseph Shield Nicholson - Great Britain - 1909 - 324 pages
...countries rent and profit eat up wages, and the two superior orders of people oppress the inferior one"; but in new colonies the interest of the two superior...where that inferior one is not in a state of slavery." Later on, Adam Smith shows that even as regards the slaves good treatment is good economy ; the French... | |
 | Joseph Shield Nicholson - Great Britain - 1909 - 328 pages
...countries rent and profit eat up wages, and the two superior orders of people oppress the inferior one " ; but in new colonies the interest of the two superior...where that inferior one is not in a state of slavery." Later on, Adam Smith shows that even as regards the slaves good treatment is good economy ; the French... | |
 | Warren Edwin Brokaw - Economics - 1927 - 396 pages
...countries, rent and profit eat up wages, •and the two superior orders of people oppress the inferior one. But in new colonies, the interest of the two superior...the inferior one with more generosity and humanity." Because, as he explained, the "inferior one" — workers — could so easily get cheap land. Yet there... | |
 | Adam Smith - History - 2008 - 1148 pages
.... * . i • i - e greatness, are interior one. But in new colonies, the interest or encouraged. tne two superior orders obliges them to treat the inferior...with more generosity and humanity; at least, where 1 [Eds. 1-4 reads 'support'.] that inferior one is not in a state of slavery. Waste lands of the greatest... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 344 pages
...countries, rent and profit eat up wages, and two superior orders of people oppress the inferior one. But in new colonies, the interest of the two superior...the inferior one with more generosity and humanity." \Wealth, p. 532] When put into historical perspective, Smith's views on social classes and class conflict... | |
 | Donald Winch - History - 1996 - 452 pages
...countries, rent and profit eat up wages, and the two superior orders of people oppress the inferior one. But in new colonies, the interest of the two superior...with more generosity and humanity, at least where the inferior one is not in a state of slavery. 45 The benefits attached to the absence of feudal relics... | |
 | Michael Perelman - Business & Economics - 2000 - 428 pages
...but is willing to employ labour at any price" (ibid.). In addition, because of the scarcity of labor, "the interest of the two superior orders obliges them...the inferior one with more generosity and humanity" (Smith 1976, IV.vii.b.3, 565). The reference to the "generosity and humanity" of employers is not particularly... | |
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In other countries, rent and profit eat up wages, and the two superior orders of people oppress the inferior one. But in new colonies, the interest of the two superior orders obliges them to treat the inferior one with more generosity and humanity; at... 
