 | Lawrence B. Glickman - 1999 - 436 pàgines
...as "not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without."7 He observed that a linen shirt is not "strictly speaking" a necessary of life but that,... | |
 | Andrew Calabrese, Jean-Claude Burgelman - 1999 - 344 pàgines
...understand not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even the lowest order, to be without" (Adam Smith, quoted in Sen, 1981, p. 18). Sen couples Aristotle's... | |
 | 2000 - 724 pàgines
...Chap. X, part ii, ,jd argument (Canaan's ed., p. 136). By " necessaries " Smith understood " whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for...people, even of the lowest order, to be without." l While he argued that in Great Britain wages were considerably above the subsistence level, yet he... | |
 | 2000 - 240 pàgines
...as "not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for...people, even of the lowest order, to be without." This minimum standard of living is usually translated into a dollar level, such as the poverty line.... | |
 | Wendy Cameron, Sheila Haines, Mary Maude - 2000 - 528 pàgines
...definition of that poverty, but Adam Smith's description of basic necessities as "whatever the customs of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without" seems to cover Sockett s intention and may even lie behind his own definition of the standards for... | |
 | Kath Woodward, Open University - 2000 - 180 pàgines
...understand not only the commodities that are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even the lowest orders, to be without' ISmith. 1776. quoted in Sen, 1981I. Ideas of what it is to be poor... | |
 | Joseph White - 2001 - 356 pàgines
...are "not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for...creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without" (1997: 271). 7. Weaver 1999, p. 191 and table 5.1. For example, the normal retirement age in the United... | |
 | Richard G. Wilkinson - 2001 - 92 pàgines
...commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of a country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without.' Karl Marx also recognized that social comparisons are fundamental to our perception of our circumstances.... | |
 | Peter Lambert - 2001 - 338 pàgines
...not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary, for the support of life, but what ever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even the lowest order, to be without'. Sen believes that the capabilities to live without shame, to participate... | |
 | Albert Gore, Al Gore, Tipper Gore - 2003 - 438 pàgines
...understand, not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for...people, even of the lowest order, to be without." But today there's a new twist. Schor believes that the weakening of community bonds ended the practice... | |
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By necessaries I understand, not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without. 
