The Wealth of Nations · Character
The French
French people as economic and political example.
minor
Also known as the French, The French, their
First appearance: ii of restraints upon the importation from foreign countries of such goods as can be produced at home
The French shows up with force in VIII: Of the Wages of Labour. The page is where that presence becomes real.
Reference to the French author and the manufactures of Elbeuf and Rouen used as evidence.
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In VIII: Of the Wages of Labour: Reference to the French author and the manufactures of Elbeuf and Rouen used as evidence. Later, in Of the Rise and Progress of Cities and Towns, After the Fall of the Roman Empire:…
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Character groups
- European national examples
- Ancient authorities and examples
- Labor and wage dynamics
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- VIII: Of the Wages of Labour
- Of the Rise and Progress of Cities and Towns, After the Fall of the Roman Empire
- II: Of the Unreasonableness of Those Extraordinary Restraints Upon Other Principles
- Of Drawbacks
- VI: Of Treaties of Commerce
- Of the Motives for Establishing New Colonies
- II: Causes of the Prosperity of New Colonies
- III: Of the Expense of Public Works and Public Institutions
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