 | Business & Economics - 2000 - 724 pages
...Smith's underlying philosophy ' Oncken, Die Ethik Smith's u. Kanb. 'Ilk I, viit fCannan's ed., p. g1). "It is in this manner that the demand for men, like that lor any other commodity, necessarily regulates the production of men." ' Smith thought men were born... | |
 | Charles Gide, Charles Rist - Business & Economics - 2000 - 728 pages
...would soon foree baek its priee to that proper rate whieh the eireumstanees of the soeiety required. It is in this manner that the demand for men, like that for any other eommodity, neeessarily regulates the produetion of men; quiekens it when it goes on too... | |
 | Barbara Pocock - Business & Economics - 2003 - 308 pages
...market relationship between rates of reproduction and wage rewards: '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. It is this demand which regulates and determines the state of propagation... | |
 | Hannes Grandits, Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung - Families - 2003 - 448 pages
...number, naturally tends to widen and extend those limits." He added, "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" (Smith 1961:89). rising, economic growth in the past tended to increase... | |
 | James S. Larson - Archetype (Psychology) - 2004 - 116 pages
...maximize production and lower price. Smith even believed that demand affected human populations. He wrote "the demand for men, like that of any other commodity, necessarily regulates the production of men... It is this demand which regulates and determines the state of propagation in all the different countries... | |
 | Adam Smith - Business & Economics - 2004 - 260 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... | |
 | Gareth Stedman Jones - Business & Economics - 2005 - 300 pages
...labourers adopted by Adam Smith himself. Smith accepted as a truism that 'the demand for men, like that for any other commodity, necessarily regulates the production of men; quickens it when it goes too slowly and stops it when it goes too fast'. But this did not mean that the poor only worked when... | |
 | Robert E. Babe, Robert Babe - Nature - 2006 - 249 pages
...only the main source of value, it was itself also a commodity. Reminiscent of Hobbes, Smith wrote: 'It is in this manner that the demand for men, like that for any other commodity, necessarily regulates the production of men."8 As remarked by Jacob Bronowski,... | |
 | Adam Smith - Business & Economics - 2007 - 513 pages
...required. It is in this manner that the demand for men, like that for any other commodity, neceflarily regulates the production of men ; quickens it when it goes on too fk,wly5 and flops it when it advances too faft. It is this demand which regulates and determines the... | |
 | Andrew Goatly - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2007 - 464 pages
...as would soon force back its price to that proper rate which the circumstances of 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... | |
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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. 
