An Inquiry Into The Nature And Causes Of The Wealth Of Nations

*The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all theThe the necessaries and conveniencies of life which it annually consumes, and which consist alwaysnecessaries always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce fromeither from other nations. According, therefore, as this produce, or what is purchased with it, bears a greater or smaller proportion to the number of those who are to consume it, the nation will be better orsmaller or worse supplied with all the necessaries and conveniencies for which it has occasio…