 ... has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant...  An Essay on the Law of Patents for New Inventions - Էջ viiiThomas Green Fessenden - 1822 - 427 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Jay Schulkin - 2004 - 388 էջ
...difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. iWealth of Nations, 1776, pp. 734-735i Owing to the fact that workmen . . . have been taught ... by... | |
 | Domenico Losurdo - 2004 - 404 էջ
...Wealth of Nations, he contrasts the wage laborer who, because of the monotony of labor, "generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become," a person unable to take part "in any rational conversation" or of "conceiving any generous" sentiment,... | |
 | Adam Smith - 2004 - 260 էջ
...difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.' So although markets and division of labour provide great material benefits, Smith also believed they... | |
 | Christopher Winch, John Gingell - 2004 - 184 էջ
...difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. (Smith [1776], (1981), Book V, S.785-786) Smith wrote both as an observer and as a propagandist for... | |
 | John Macdonald - 2004 - 264 էջ
...difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become." That doesn't sound as if Smith wanted the workers to hang up their brains along with their caps when... | |
 | Arthur Rich - 2006 - 736 էջ
...exert his understanding.... He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.26 Smith thus understands the already much-discussed connection between work and personality27... | |
 | Meghnad Desai - 2004 - 388 էջ
...independence. This in turn has some negative aspects too. Division of labour is mind-numbing. Workers become 'as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to be'. Smith continues to point out the dehumanizing effects of specialized routine work in almost modern... | |
 | Guang-Zhen Sun - 2005 - 312 էջ
...difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for...relishing or bearing a part in any rational conversation, but of conceiving any generous, noble, or tender sentiment, and consequently of forming any just judgment... | |
 | Alessandro Roncaglia - 2006 - 596 էջ
...difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for...relishing or bearing a part in any rational conversation, but of conceiving any generous, noble, or tender sentiment, and consequently of forming any just judgement... | |
 | Harvey Chisick - 2005 - 552 էջ
...difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become" (Bk. V, chap. 1; p. 782). Smith's broad civic vision, which includes concern for extraeconomic factors,... | |
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