 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.  The Dublin university magazine - Pagina 16door University magazine - 1845Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Deen K. Chatterjee - 2004 - 308 pagina’s
...the point: By necessaries I understand, not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of...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... | |
 | Martha Craven Nussbaum - 2004 - 440 pagina’s
...from Shame By necessaries I understand, not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of...country renders it indecent for creditable people ... to be without. A linen shirt, for example, is, strictly speaking, not a necessary of life. The... | |
 | Michael Common, Sigrid Stagl - 2005 - 600 pagina’s
...century that: 'By necessities I understand, not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of...people, even of the lowest order, to be without.' In the essay on the virtues of economic growth cited in section 6.4.1, Keynes distinguished between 'absolute'... | |
 | Steven A. Nyce, Sylvester J. Schieber - 2005 - 428 pagina’s
...luxuries." He classified necessaries as "not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of...people, even of the lowest order, to be without." 12 While this concept of minimal need is absolute, it is not universal. For example, Smith explained... | |
 | David P. Levine, S. Abu Turab Rizvi - 2005 - 180 pagina’s
...us that a worker's necessities include "not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of...creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without" (Smith 1937: 821). The process of change in cultural norms was seen to be slow enough that subsistence... | |
 | Janet M. Todd, Janet Todd - 2005 - 516 pagina’s
...the 'competence'. Adam Smith defined the term competence in its broadest social inclusion, that is, 'whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent...creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without'.4 But, as John Trusler, a contemporary economist, writes in his Domestic Management (1819),... | |
 | Peter Saunders - 2005 - 170 pagina’s
...only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life but whatever the custom renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without. Over two centuries later, British sociologist Peter Townsend (1979, p. 31) produced what many regard... | |
 | Peter Mathias - 2006 - 360 pagina’s
...different: 'By necessities I understand not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life; but whatever the custom of...creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without. [1] Even with United Nations investigations into the adequacy of diets in poverty, which are potentially... | |
 | John Iceland - 2006 - 225 pagina’s
...the experience of being unable to consume "not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of...people, even of the lowest order, to be without." 3 More recently, Peter Townsend observed that people are social beings who assume many roles in a community—... | |
 | Shereen Ismael - 2006 - 132 pagina’s
..."The Market Basket Measure is based on the concept of 'necessities' which was defined by Adam Smith as 'whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent...creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without.'"37 While the poverty rate generated by the preliminary MBM was comparable to that generated... | |
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