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Adam Smith:The Wealth of Nations, Book I, Chapter VII, Paragraph 176

Adam Smith《The Wealth of Nations》· Book I, Chapter VII · Investing

The natural price itself varies with the natural rate of each of its component parts, of wages, profit, and rent; and in every society this rate varies according to their circumstances, according to their riches or poverty, their advancing, stationary, or declining condition. I shall, in the four following chapters, endeavour to explain, as fully and distinctly as I can, the causes of those different variations.

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