The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (W W Norton & Company; 1998)
FRONTIERS 295 to modernize, few would predict their rapid convergence with the North American republics, even with the help of s ...
(^296) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS geographical explanation, one that links natural circumstances to cul ture and institu ...
FRONTIERS^297 Farm wages and land prices, of course, set a floor for urban wages— otherwise, how hold the labor?—while the very ...
298 THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS manufactures, using wool and linen of their own raising."^7 New England and the middle col ...
FRONTIERS^299 sought on their own account, to move to high American wages. Here the North American colonies were helped by their ...
(^300) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS frame), which used semiskilled women workers to make a tougher, coarser yarn; and then ...
FRONTIERS^301 times make hard masters. Inevitably, in spite of what economists tell us about the homogenizing effects of competi ...
302 THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS struction had turned from carpentry to millwork. Doors and windows were cut and assembled ...
FRONTIERS^303 is often the focus of attention, because the machine tools invented for this purpose were spectacular achievements ...
(^304) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS The difficulty of finding good armorers no longer exists; they abound in every machine ...
FRONTIERS^305 chinery does not perform the greater part of the labor."^29 So agricul ture became an industry too, with economie ...
306 THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS tries could copy; some indeed made forays along similar lines. But these older societies d ...
FRONTIERS 307 In 1870, the United States had the largest economy in the world, and its best years still lay ahead. By 1913, Amer ...
(^308) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS Conscious of the injustice here, Smith condemned it as "a manifest violation of the mos ...
FRONTIERS^309 while hiring underpaid subordinates overseas. They in turn found it more gainful to accept bribes from colonial me ...
_20^ The South American Way Comparing the population of Spanish with that of British America, we shall at every step be struck w ...
THE SOUTH AMERICAN WAY^311 tory. Gold and silver mines are wasting assets, and some two hundred years later, when the American c ...
(^312) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS bothered Spain. As late as the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Spanish still t ...
THE SOUTH AMERICAN WAY^313 Europe, they already possessed a sense of identity, economic aspiration, and national purpose.* In La ...
(^314) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS privileges going back to feudal times. They knew the darkest secrets of the confessiona ...
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