亚当·斯密是最早对工资进行分析和研究并建立起比较完善工资理论的经济学家,是劳动工资理论的开山鼻祖。一、工资的涵义斯密认为,在土地私有和资本积累尚未出现的原始状态下,全部劳动生产物就是劳动的自然报酬或自然工资。当土地私有和资本积累出现以后,全部劳动生产物就要与资本家和土地所有者共分,劳动的工资这时只能是劳动生产物的一部分,应该等于劳动的自然价格。工资是财产所有者与劳动者相分离的情况下,作为非财产所有者的劳动者的报酬。因此,斯密说:“劳动生产物构成 Adam Smith is the first economist to analyze and study wages and establish a relatively sound wage theory. He is the originator of the theory of labor wages. First, the meaning of wages Smith believes that private ownership of land and capital accumulation has not yet appeared in the original state, all labor-producing goods is the natural reward of labor or natural wages. When private ownership of land and accumulation of capital appear, all labor-producing goods are divided up with capitalists and landowners. The wages of labor at this time can only be a part of the products of labor and should equal the natural price of labor. Wages are the remuneration of laborers who are owners of non-property when the property owner is separated from the worker. Therefore, Smith said: ”Labor produce constitutes