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Side 11
... corn provinces , fully as good , and in most years nearly about the fame price with the corn of England , though , in opulence and improvement , France is perhaps inferior to England . The corn - lands of England , however , are better ...
... corn provinces , fully as good , and in most years nearly about the fame price with the corn of England , though , in opulence and improvement , France is perhaps inferior to England . The corn - lands of England , however , are better ...
Side 50
... value would in this cafe be liable to varia- tions of two different kinds ... value of a money rent . The discovery of the mines of America dimi- nifhed the value of gold and filver in Europe . This ... corn CHA 50 OF THE REAL AND NOMINAL.
... value would in this cafe be liable to varia- tions of two different kinds ... value of a money rent . The discovery of the mines of America dimi- nifhed the value of gold and filver in Europe . This ... corn CHA 50 OF THE REAL AND NOMINAL.
Side 51
... value ; or are worth little more than a fourth part of the corn which they were formerly worth . But fince the reign of Philip and Mary the denomination of the English coin has undergone little or no alteration , and the fame number of ...
... value ; or are worth little more than a fourth part of the corn which they were formerly worth . But fince the reign of Philip and Mary the denomination of the English coin has undergone little or no alteration , and the fame number of ...
Side 52
... corn will not do it exactly . The fubfiftence of the la- bourer , or the real price of labour , as I fhall endeavour to fhow hereafter , is very different upon different occafions ; more liberal in a fo- ciety advancing to opulence ...
... corn will not do it exactly . The fubfiftence of the la- bourer , or the real price of labour , as I fhall endeavour to fhow hereafter , is very different upon different occafions ; more liberal in a fo- ciety advancing to opulence ...
Side 53
... corn which can be purchased by any particular quantity of that commodity . Though the real value of a corn rent , it is to be obferved however , varies much less from cen ... price of corn may frequently be dou I. PRICE OF COMMODITIES . 53.
... corn which can be purchased by any particular quantity of that commodity . Though the real value of a corn rent , it is to be obferved however , varies much less from cen ... price of corn may frequently be dou I. PRICE OF COMMODITIES . 53.
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Side 26 - The real price of every thing, what every thing really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it. What every thing is really worth to the man who has acquired it, and who wants to dispose of it or exchange it for something else, is the toil and trouble which it can save to himself, and which it can impose upon other people.
Side 10 - But man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only. He will be more likely to prevail if he can interest their self-love in his favour, and show them that it is for their own advantage to do for him what he requires of them.
Side 126 - The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable. The patrimony of a poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his hands; and to hinder him from employing this strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper without injury to his neighbour, is a plain violation of this most sacred property.
Side 24 - The things which have the greatest value in use have frequently little or no value in exchange; and, on the contrary, those which have the greatest value in exchange have frequently little or no value in use.
Side 26 - The value of any commodity, therefore, to the person who possesses it, and who means not to use or consume it himself, but to exchange it for other commodities, is equal to the quantity of labour which it enables him to purchase or command. Labour, therefore, is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities.
Side 65 - The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravitating. Different accidents may sometimes keep them suspended a good deal above it, and sometimes force them down even somewhat below it. But whatever may be the obstacles which hinder them from settling in this center of repose and continuance, they are constantly tending towards it.
Side 10 - It is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals, which seem to know neither this nor any other species of contracts.
Side 10 - As it is the power of exchanging that gives occasion to the division of labour, so the extent of this division must always be limited by the extent of that power, or, in other words, by the extent of the market.
Side 138 - People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible, indeed, to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies, much less to render them necessary.
Side 8 - The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is any where directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.