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Quotation from The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
“Those ten persons, therefore, could make among them upwards of forty-eight thousand pins in a day.”
The Wealth of Nations, Book I, ch. i (Project Gutenberg #3300 text)
The famous calculation in the pin factory that opens the argument for the division of labour.
Citation: "Those ten persons, therefore, could make among them upwards of forty-eight thousand pins in a day." — Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, Book I, ch. i (Project Gutenberg #3300 text). (id the-wealth-of-nations-q1)
Portrait: Wealth of Nations, Gerhard Streminger, Public domain.
