 From manufactured commodities always falling and raw produce always rising, with the progress of society, such a disproportion in their relative value is at length created, that in rich countries a labourer, by the sacrifice of a very small quantity only...  The Logic of Political Economy - Page 153by Thomas De Quincey - 1844 - 260 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David Ricardo - Economics - 1821 - 560 pages
...rising, with the progress of society, such a disproportion in their relative value is at length created, that in rich countries a labourer, by the sacrifice...able to provide liberally for all his other wants. Independently of the variations in the value of money, which necessarily affect money wages, but which... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Value - 1859 - 404 pages
...justify the supposition, that, as a natural state of things, an English laborer might spend one half of his wages upon wheat, (p. 106,) and the other half...things," by alleging (p. 97) that " in rich countries a laborer, by the sacrifice of a very small quantity only of his food, is able to provide liberally for... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1859 - 412 pages
...justify the supposition, that, as a natural state of things, an English laborer might spend one half of his wages upon wheat, (p. 106,) and the other half...things," by alleging (p. 97) that " in rich countries a laborer, by the sacrifice of a very small quantity only of his food, is able to provide liberally for... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Economics - 1859 - 418 pages
...justify the supposition, that, as a natural state of things, an English laborer might spend one half of his wages upon wheat, (p. 106,) and the other half...things," by alleging (p. 97) that " in rich countries a laborer, by the sacrifice of a very small quantity only of his food, is able to provide liberally for... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1877 - 676 pages
...justify the supposition, that, as a natural state of things, an English laborer might spend one half of his wages upon wheat, (p. 106,) and the other half...things," by alleging (p. 97) that " in rich countries a laborer,, by the sacrifice of a very small quantity only of his food, is able to provide liberally... | |
 | David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch - Economics - 1886 - 688 pages
...rising, with the progress of society, such a disproportion in their relative value is at length created, that in rich countries a labourer, by the sacrifice...able to provide liberally for all his other wants. Independently of the variations in the value of money, which necessarily affect money wages, but which... | |
 | David Ricardo - Economics - 1895 - 166 pages
...rising, with the progress of society, such a disproportion in their relative value is at length created, that in rich countries a labourer, by the sacrifice...able to provide liberally for all his other wants. Independently of the variations in the value of money, which necessarily affect [money] wages, but... | |
 | John Bowditch, Clement Ramsland - Communism - 1961 - 210 pages
...rising, with the progress of society, such a disproportion in their relative value is at length created, that in rich countries a labourer, by the sacrifice...able to provide liberally for all his other wants. Independently of the variations in the value of money, which necessarily affect money wages, but which... | |
 | Maxine Berg - Business & Economics - 1982 - 396 pages
...rising, with the progress of society, such a disproportion in their relative value is at length created, that in rich countries a labourer, by the sacrifice...food, is able to provide liberally for all his other wants.'27 The fact that workers could and did buy manufactured goods limited the impact *• Ibid.... | |
 | W. W. Rostow - Business & Economics - 1992 - 733 pages
...rising, with the progress of society, such a disproportion in their relative value is at length created, that in rich countries a labourer, by the sacrifice...able to provide liberally for all his other wants. Ricardo judged that machinery and scientific progress were relevant to agriculture as well as manufacture;155... | |
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