I would not have thought the conclusion the Bank has printed under the pin factory that it resulted to a ‘great increase in the quantity of work’ would have passed their scrutiny. If that was the result of the division of labour then any government could achieve such increases in the quantity of work by simply creating more regulations and teams of inspectors to enforce them. Governments are ‘make work’ institutions; commercial economies seek to economise on labour, to create wealth, which is the ‘annual output of the necessaries, conveniences and amusements of life’, as Smith put it.