La ricchezza delle nazioni
- Lingua:
- inglese
- Stato:
- Opera completa
- Autorialità:
- Scritta dall'autore
- Stato del testo:
- Con errori di scansione (misura automatica su tutto il testo, non verificata a mano) · 4 passi illeggibili, esclusi dalle risposte
- Estensione:
- ~400.000 parole · 1899 passi
Cita quest'opera
- APAAdam Smith. (n.d.). An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations [La ricchezza delle nazioni]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/it/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 ricchezza delle nazioni]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/it/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 ricchezza delle nazioni]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/it/works/adam-smith/an-inquiry-into-the-nature-and-causes-of-the-wealth-of-nations.
Riferimento dell'edizione che SigPhi riproduce: SigPhi ne è la riproduzione digitale, non l'editore. L'anno dell'edizione non figura nei metadati (da qui «n.d.») e il traduttore compare solo quando è noto.
Di che cosa tratta
Un trattato su come si produce e si distribuisce la ricchezza di un paese, che si apre spiegando perché dividere il lavoro moltiplica ciò che si può produrre.
Contesto e storia
Smith era professore di filosofia morale a Glasgow e vi lavorò per più di dieci anni, compresi quelli trascorsi in Francia tra i fisiocratici. Uscì nel marzo del 1776, l'anno dell'indipendenza americana. L'immagine della «mano invisibile», citata come se fosse la sua tesi centrale, vi compare una sola volta.
Contesto editoriale, non una fonte citabile: a differenza dei passi dell'opera, questi dati non si possono verificare sul 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.…