...use the words of Dr Smithj are not only indispensably necessary for the support of life, but which the custom of the country renders it indecent for...creditable people even of the lowest order to be without, consists in this, that the former is altogether a tax on profits, and is entirely paid by the employers...

...commodities are either necessaries or luxuries. By necessaries I understand, not only the commo, 4jties which are indispensably necessary for the support of life,...creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without. A linen shirt, for example, is strictly speaking, not a necessary of life. The Greeks and Romans lived,...

...necessaries I understand, not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the supT port of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders...creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without. A linen shirt, for example, is strictly speaking, not a necessary of life. The Greeks and Romans lived,...

...character of necessaries. " By necessaries," says Dr Smith, " I understand not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life,...creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without. A linen shirt, for example, is, strictly speaking, not a necessary of life. The Greeks and Romans lived,...

...which are indispensably necessary for the " This of course includes the meaning no* to marry without. support of life, but whatever the custom of the country...creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without. A linen shirt, for example, is, strictly speaking, not a necessary of life. The Greeks and Romans lived,...

...increased economy ; nor can a rise in the price of necessaries, — that is, of those commodities " which the custom of the country renders it indecent for...people, even of the lowest order, to be without," -{• — be compensated by an immediate corresponding rise of wages. The labourer is, in this respect,...

...increased economy ; nor can a rise in the price of necessaries, <— that is, of those commodities " which the custom of the country renders it indecent for...people, even of the lowest order, to be without," -j—be compensated by an immediate corresponding rise of wages. The labourer is, in this respect,...

...the commodities which are indispcnsibly necessary tor the support of life, hut whatever the custom uf the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without. A linen shirt, for example, is, strictly speaking, not a necessary of life. The Greeks and Romans lived,...

...a variety of circumstances. It must comprise, in the words of Adam Smith, "not only such things as are indispensably necessary for the support of life,...people, even of the lowest order, to be without." The quantity and kind of these things depend, not only on the habits and customs of the people. but...

...commodities are either necessaries or luxuries. By necessaries I understand, not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life,...creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without. A linen shirt, for example, is, strictly speaking, not a necessary of life. The Greeks and Romans lived,...