 | Jean-Jacques Laffont, David Martimort - 2009 - Страниц: 440
...years. -Smith (1776, bk. 1, chap. 8, p. 81) He stressed the lack of appropriate incentives for slaves: [T]he work done by slaves, though it appears to cost...their maintenance, is in the end the dearest of any. A person who can acquire no property, can have no other interest but to eat as much, and to labour... | |
 | Patrick Brantlinger - 2003 - Страниц: 276
...Nations Adam Smith considers "the wear and tear of a slave" versus that "of a free servant" and concludes that "the work done by slaves, though it appears to...their maintenance, is in the end the dearest of any" (1:90, 411). Illustrating Smith's economic principles in her abolitionist tale, Demarara (1833), Harriet... | |
 | Annette Gordon-Reed - 2003 - Страниц: 266
...Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. "The experience of all ages," Smith declared, "demonstrates that the work done by slaves, though it appears to...their maintenance, is in the end the dearest of any." Why? Because "a person who can acquire no property, can have no other interest but to eat as much,... | |
 | John Gascoigne - 2003 - Страниц: 344
...slavery as part of his general theme of the economic benefits of 'the liberal reward of labour' arguing that 'the work done by slaves, though it appears to...only their maintenance, is in the end the dearest of any'.49 Banks, too, could discourse on the way in which the advance of civilisation was more and more... | |
 | Rocco Pezzimenti - 2004 - Страниц: 260
...benefit from any real improvements. The experience of all times has shown that work done by slaves, even "though it appears to cost only their maintenance, is in the end the dearest of any" (Smith, WN, 418). IV.6 Agriculture develops at an even pace with the juridical notion of property,... | |
 | Glyn Lloyd-Hughes - 2005 - Страниц: 412
...be expected when they employ slaves. The experience of all ages and nations, 1 believe, demonstrates that the work done by slaves, though it appears to...their maintenance, is in the end the dearest of any. A person who can acquire no property can have no other interest but to eat as much and to labour as... | |
 | Vincent Carretta - 2005 - Страниц: 472
...common labour are so very high. . . . The experience of all ages and nations, I believe, demonstrates that the work done by slaves, though it appears to...their maintenance, is in the end the dearest of any. A person who can acquire no property, can have no interest but to eat as much, and to labour as little... | |
 | Robin D. G. Kelley, Earl Lewis - 2005 - Страниц: 320
...the most profitable system. "The experience of all ages and nations," Smith claimed, "demonstrates that the work done by slaves, though it appears to...only their maintenance, is in the end the dearest of all." It encouraged idleness, Smith argued, and retarded progress. Neither enforced labor nor restricted... | |
 | Anna Maria Cimitile - 2005 - Страниц: 180
...maggiore profitto possibile: The experience of ali ages and nations, I believe, demonstrates that thè work done by slaves, though it appears to cost only their maintenance, is in thè end thè dearest of any. A person who can acquire no property, can have no other interest but... | |
 | Robin Cohen - 2006 - Страниц: 260
...Moreover, the commentators and planters of the time knew it. As Adam Smith argued in The wealth of nations, The work done by slaves though it appears to cost...their maintenance is in the end the dearest of any' (cited Tinker 1984: 77). The planters had to maintain a yearround workforce in a seasonal industry,... | |
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The experience of all ages and nations, I believe, demonstrates that the work done by slaves, though it appears to cost only their maintenance, is in the end the dearest of any. 
