Der Wohlstand der Nationen
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- Englisch
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- Vollständiges Werk
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- APAAdam Smith. (n.d.). An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations [Der Wohlstand der Nationen]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/de/works/adam-smith/an-inquiry-into-the-nature-and-causes-of-the-wealth-of-nations
- MLAAdam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations [Der Wohlstand der Nationen]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/de/works/adam-smith/an-inquiry-into-the-nature-and-causes-of-the-wealth-of-nations.
- ChicagoAdam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations [Der Wohlstand der Nationen]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/de/works/adam-smith/an-inquiry-into-the-nature-and-causes-of-the-wealth-of-nations.
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Wovon es handelt
Eine Abhandlung darüber, wie der Wohlstand eines Landes entsteht und verteilt wird – beginnend mit der Frage, warum Arbeitsteilung den Ertrag vervielfacht.
Kontext und Geschichte
Smith war Professor für Moralphilosophie in Glasgow und arbeitete über zehn Jahre an dem Buch, darunter die Zeit in Frankreich bei den Physiokraten. Es erschien im März 1776, dem Jahr der amerikanischen Unabhängigkeit. Das Bild der «unsichtbaren Hand», das als seine Kernthese zitiert wird, kommt darin genau einmal vor.
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one very simple object. It is naturally to be expected, therefore, that some one or other of those who are employed in each particular branch of labour should soon find out easier and readier methods of performing their own particular work, whenever the nature of it admits of such improvement. A great part of the machines made use of in those manufactures in which labour is most subdivided, were originally the invention of common workmen, who, being each of them employed in some very simple operation, naturally turned their thoughts towards finding out easier and readier methods of performing it. Whoever has been much accustomed to visit such manufactures, must frequently have been shewn very pretty machines, which were the inventions of such workmen, in order to facilitate and quicken their own particular part of the work. In the first fire engines {this was the current designation for steam engines}, a boy was constantly employed to open and shut alternately the communication between the boiler and the cylinder, according as the piston either ascended or descended. One of those boys, who loved to play with his companions, observed that, by tying a string from the handle of the valve which opened this communication to another part of the machine, the valve would open and shut without his assistance, and leave him at liberty to divert himself with his play-fellows. One of the greatest improvements that has been made upon this machine, since it was first invented, was in this manner the discovery of a boy who wanted to save his own labour. All the improvements in machinery, however, have by no means been the inventions of those who had occasion to use the machines.…