An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations | Short Question Answer Key

Short Answer Key

Book 1, Chapter 1

1. What does the division of labor do for a manufacturer?

It increases the productive powers of labor.

2. Where are the separation of different trades and employments from one another generally found?

In those countries which enjoy the highest degree of industry and improvement.

3. What kind of business does not lend itself to many subdivisions of labor?

Agriculture.

4. Why are the silks of France better and cheaper than those of England?

Because silk manufacturing is not as well suited to the climate of England as it is to that of France.

5. Which is not a reason for the increase of the quantity of work under division of labor?

The employment of more workmen.

6. What does the division of labor do for individual workmen?

It reduces every man's job to one simple operation.

7. How does division of labor...
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