 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1894 - 526 pages
...would soon force back its price to that proper rate which the circumstances of the society required. It is in this manner that the demand for men, like that for any other commodity, necessarily regulates the production of men; quickens it when it goes on too... | |
 | Europe - 1906 - 618 pages
...$eDoltening3gciefy: the progress of population regulated by thi! real wages of labour ober luie omilf) I 8 foflt: It is in this manner that the demand for men like that for any other commodity regulates the production of men. fdjoftcn auêbilbeten, Organifationen ftaatëfojialiftifcfjen... | |
 | William Bell Robertson - Economics - 1906 - 84 pages
...would soon force back its price to that proper rate which the circumstances of the society required. It is in this manner that the demand for men, like that for any other commodity, necessarily regulates the production of men — quickens it when it goes on... | |
 | J. Ellis Barker - Great Britain - 1910 - 398 pages
...of children is the greatest of all encouragements to marry. . . . The demand for men, like that for any other commodity, necessarily regulates the production...quickens it when it goes on too slowly, and stops it when it advances too fast.' Translating Adam Smith's epigrams into modern language, I would state... | |
 | Lewis Henry Haney - Economics - 1911 - 598 pages
...abstraction. But Adam Smith can hardly be called a utilitarian in philos1 Bk. I, viii (Cannan's ed., p. 82). "It is in this manner that the demand for men, like that for any other commodity, necessarily regulates the production of men. . . ." 2 Smith thought men were... | |
 | J. Ellis Barker - Germany - 1919 - 520 pages
...seems, still faster than they can find labourers to employ. . . . " The demand for men, like that for any other commodity, necessarily regulates the production...quickens it when it goes on too slowly, and stops it when it advances too fast." i We live in the age of machinery. The advent of powerful machinery... | |
 | Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave, Henry Higgs - Economics - 1926 - 886 pages
...importance for projects of social reform. Adam SMITH, finally, had remarked that " the demand for men necessarily regulates the production of men ; quickens it when it goes on too slowly, and stops it when it advances too far " ( W. of N., I. via). " Every species of animals naturally multiplies... | |
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It is in this manner that the demand for men, like that for any other commodity, necessarily regulates the production of men, quickens it when it goes on too slowly, and stops it when it advances too fast. 
