 | Adam Smith - Division of labor - 1786 - 538 pages
...willing to employ labour at any price. The high wages of labour encourage population. The cheapnefs and plenty of good land encourage improvement, and enable the proprietor to pay thofe high wages. In thoie wages confifts almoll the whole price of the land; and though they are high,... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1789 - 550 pages
...willing to employ labour at any price. The high wages of labour encourage population. The cheapnefs and plenty of good land encourage improvement, and enable the proprietor to pay thofe high wages. In thofe wages confifts almoft the whole price of the land ; and though they are... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1801 - 374 pages
...therefore, difpute about wages , but is willing to employ labor at any price. The high wages of labor encourage population. The cheapness and plenty of...encourage improvement, and enable the proprietor to pay thofe high wages. In thofe wages confifts almoft the whole price of the land ; and though they are... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1811 - 544 pages
...willing to employ labour at any price. The high wages of labour encourage population. The cheapnefs and plenty of good land encourage improvement, and enable the proprietor to pay thofe high wages. In thofe wages confifts almoft the whole price of the land ; and though they are... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1830 - 620 pages
...wealth to every man, gives the highest encouragement to the increase of the colomal population ; while ' the cheapness and plenty of good land encourage improvement,...the land ; and though they are high, considered as wages of labour, they are low, considered as the price of what is so very valuable. What encourages... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1830 - 622 pages
...to every man, gives the highest encouragement to the increase of the colonial population ; while ' the cheapness and plenty of good land encourage improvement,...the land ; and though they are high, considered as wages of labour, they are low, considered as the price of what is so very valuable. What encourages... | |
 | 1830 - 436 pages
...to every man, gives the highest encouragement to the increase of the colonial population ; while " the cheapness and plenty of good land encourage improvement,...pay those high wages. In those wages consists almost thé whole price of the land ; and though they are high, considered as wages of labour, they are low,... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1869 - 870 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...improvement, and enable the proprietor to pay those 1 To these causes may bo added, that and net-vices ; and where there ii mich In luch new countries... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1884 - 604 pages
...ancient Greece. In their dependency takes place in new colonies, makes it difficult for him to get diis labour. He does not, therefore, dispute about wages,...proprietor to pay those high wages. In those wages consists ilmost the whole price of the land ; and though diey are high, considered as die wages of labour, diey... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1887 - 618 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 whole price of the land ; and though they are %h, considered as the wages of labour, they are low, considered as the price of what is so very valuable.... | |
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But this great profit cannot be made without employing the labour of other people in clearing and cultivating the land; and the disproportion between the great extent of the land and the small number of the people, which commonly takes place in new colonies,... 
