 | Jean-Pierre Gross - 2003 - 280 pàgines
...149. 6 Sen, Inequality Reexamined, p. 109. 7 Sen, Poverty and Famines, pp. 45-51. 1 Ibid., pp. 1-5. country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without',9 was essentially one of minimum ownership (ownership of food, shelter, clothing and so on).... | |
 | Wei-Bin Zhang - 2003 - 238 pàgines
...understand 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. A linen shirt, for example, is, strictly speaking, not a necessary... | |
 | Samuel Fleischacker - 2009 - 352 pàgines
...By "necessaries," he says, he means not only whatever is physically needed to survive "but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for...creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without" (WN 870). Linen shirts were not necessary in ancient Greece and Rome. Throughout most of Europe in... | |
 | Jerold L. Waltman - 2004 - 506 pàgines
...necessaries I understand, not only the commodities 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. A linen shirt, for example, is, strictly speaking, not a necessary of life. The Greeks and Romans lived,... | |
 | Mark Robert Rank - 2004 - 376 pàgines
...in his treatise, Wealth of Nations (1776}. Smith defined poverty as a lack of those necessities that "the custom of the country renders it indecent for...people, even of the lowest order, to be without." This type of definition is known as an absolute approach. One defines a minimum threshold for living... | |
 | Richard Berthoud - 2004 - 60 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.... Custom has rendered leather shoes a necessary of life in England. The poorest creditable person of... | |
 | Olena Hankivsky - 2004 - 196 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 of the lowest order, to be without."120 As one participant in the Romanow Commission explained: "For my husband, the war against... | |
 | Nicholas Deakin, Catherine Jones Finer, Bob Matthews - 2004 - 400 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 of the lowest order, to be without'.21 In our own day there is everything to be said for returning unashamedly to the broad theoretical... | |
 | Myles J. Kelleher - 2004 - 346 pàgines
...qualification "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."5 In a country as wealthy as the United States, the fact that people are not starving, freezing,... | |
 | Deen K. Chatterjee - 2004 - 308 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. A linen shirt, for example, is, strictly speaking, not a necessary... | |
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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. 
