 | Adam Smith - 1789
...people, and he muft be rich or poor according to the quantity of that labour which he can command, or which he can afford to purchafe. The value of any commodity, therefore, to the perfon who poflefles it, and who means not to ufe or confume it himfelf, but to exchange it for other commodities,... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1809
...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.... | |
 | 1826
...value of any commodity to the person who possesses it, and who means not to use of 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." This contains his whole leading principle upon the subject. How does our author... | |
 | Thomas Robert Malthus - 1836 - 446 sider
...commodity," he says, " 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.''*... | |
 | Travers Twiss - 1847 - 298 sider
...therefore, to the person who possesses it, of value' 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.... | |
 | Sir Travers Twiss - 1847 - 298 sider
...therefore, to the person who possesses it, of value ' 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.... | |
 | John Gray - 1848 - 344 sider
...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.... | |
 | 1848
...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 labor which it enables him to purchase or command. Labor, therefore, is the real measure of the exchangeable... | |
 | David Thomas Ansted - 1849 - 172 sider
...value of any commodity, 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.... | |
 | Dugald Stewart, John Veitch - 1855
...continues Mr. Smith, " 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.... | |
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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,... 
