La riqueza de las naciones
- Idioma:
- inglés
- Estado:
- Obra completa
- Autoría:
- Escrita por el autor
- Estado del texto:
- Con errores de escaneo (medición automática sobre todo el texto, no revisada a mano) · 4 pasajes ilegibles, excluidos de las respuestas
- Extensión:
- ~400.000 palabras · 1899 pasajes
Cita esta obra
- APAAdam Smith. (n.d.). An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations [La riqueza de las naciones]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/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 [La riqueza de las naciones]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/es/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 [La riqueza de las naciones]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/adam-smith/an-inquiry-into-the-nature-and-causes-of-the-wealth-of-nations.
Referencia de la edición reproducida. SigPhi es la reproducción digital. Se incluyen año, editorial y traductor cuando constan; «n.d.» indica que no consta el año.
De qué trata
Un tratado sobre cómo se genera y se reparte la riqueza de un país, que empieza explicando por qué dividir el trabajo multiplica lo que se produce.
Contexto e historia
Smith era catedrático de filosofía moral en Glasgow y trabajó en él más de diez años, entre ellos los que pasó en Francia tratando con los fisiócratas. Se publicó en marzo de 1776, el año de la independencia americana. La imagen de la «mano invisible», que se le atribuye como si fuera su tesis central, aparece una sola vez.
Contexto editorial, no una fuente citable: a diferencia de los pasajes de la obra, estos datos no se pueden comprobar contra el corpus.
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.…