Definitions in Political Economy: Preceded by an Inquiry Into the Rules which Ought to Guide Political Economists in the Definition and Use of Their Terms, with Remarks on the Deviation from These Rules in Their Writings

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J. Murray, 1827 - 261 стор.
 

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Сторінка 9 - EVERY man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life.
Сторінка 95 - The real value of all the different component parts of price, it must be observed, is measured by the quantity of labour which they can, each of them, purchase or command. Labour measures the value not only -of that part of price which resolves itself into labour, but of that which resolves itself into rent, and of that which resolves itself into profit.
Сторінка 171 - Labour, it must always be remembered, and not any particular commodity or set of commodities, is the real measure of the value both of silver and of all other commodities.
Сторінка 211 - Labour alone, therefore, never varying in its own value, is alone the ultimate and real standard by which the value of all commodities can at all times and places be estimated and compared.
Сторінка 18 - Before I quit this subject, it may be proper to observe, that Adam Smith, and all the writers who have followed him, have, without one exception that I know of, maintained that a rise in the price of labour would be uniformly followed by a rise in the price of all commodities.
Сторінка 12 - Some people might think that if the value of a commodity is determined by the quantity of labour spent on it, the more idle and unskilful the labourer, the more valuable would his commodity be, because more time would be required in its production.
Сторінка 7 - There is one sort of labour," he says, " which adds to the value of the subject on which it is bestowed...
Сторінка 68 - The capital of a country consists of all that portion of the produce of industry existing in it, which can be made directly available either to the support of human existence, or to the facilitating of production.
Сторінка 74 - Instead of understanding by capital all that portion of the produce of industry extrinsic to man which may be made applicable to his support and to the facilitating of production, there does not seem to be any good reason why man himself should not, and very many why he should, be considered as forming a part of the national capital...
Сторінка 61 - The end of all human exertion is the same — that is, to increase the sum of necessaries, comforts and enjoyments...

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