 If any one commodity could be found, which now and at all times required precisely the same quantity of labour to produce it, that commodity would be of an unvarying value, and would be eminently useful as a standard by which the variations of other things...  The Works of Thomas De Quincey - Page 235by Thomas De Quincey - 1877Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Robert Malthus - Economics - 1836 - 520 pages
...would be eminently useful as a standard by which the variations of other things might be measured. Of such a commodity we have no knowledge, and consequently are unable to fix on any standard of value. It is, however, of considerable use towards attaining a correct theory, to ascertain what the essential... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1854 - 404 pages
...any such measure. Thus (at p. 10, edit. 2d.), after laying down the conditio sine qua non under which any commodity could preserve an unvarying value, he...the circumstances which disqualify "any commodity, * Vidi the foot-note to p. 54 of " The Measure of Value." or all commodities together," from performing... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Conversation - 1861 - 638 pages
...such measure. Thus (at p. 10, edit. 2nd.), after laying down the conditio sine qvd non under which any commodity could preserve an unvarying value, he...any standard of value." And again (at p. 343 of the samo edition), after exposing at some length the circumstances which disqualify " any commodity, or... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - English literature - 1862 - 382 pages
...any such measure. Thus (at p. 10, edit. 2d), after laying: down the conditio sine qua non under which any commodity could preserve an unvarying value, he...again states the indispensable condition which must be realised in that commodity which should pretend to such an office ; and again he adds immediately —... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 380 pages
...any such measure. Thus (at p. 10, edit. 2d), after laying down the conditio sine qua non under which any commodity could preserve an unvarying value, he...again states the indispensable condition which must be realised in that commodity which should pretend to such an office ; and again he adds immediately —... | |
 | David Ricardo - Economics - 1895 - 166 pages
...would be eminently useful as a standard by which the variations of other things might be measured. Of such a commodity we have no knowledge and consequently are unable to fix on any standard of value. It is, however, of considerable use towards attaining a correct theory, to ascertain what the essential... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey, David Masson - 1897 - 452 pages
...any such measure. Thus (at p. 10, edit. 2d), after laying down the conditio sine qua non under which any commodity could preserve an unvarying value, he...again states the indispensable condition which must be realised in that commodity which should pretend to such an office ; and again he adds immediately —... | |
 | Economics - 1903 - 722 pages
...would be eminently useful as a standard by which the variations of other things might be measured. Of such a commodity we have no knowledge, and consequently are unable to fix on any standard of value. It is frankly acknowledged by Professor Newcomb that " a source of error in drawing conclusions " from... | |
 | David Ricardo - Economics - 1903 - 946 pages
...would be eminently useful as a standard by which the variations of other things might be measured. Of such a commodity we have no knowledge and consequently are unable to fix on any standard of value. It is, however, of considerable use towards attaining a correct theory, to ascertain what the essential... | |
 | Charles Arthur Conant - Banks and banking - 1905 - 504 pages
...would be eminently useful as a standard by which the variations of other things might be measured. Of such a commodity we have no knowledge, and consequently are unable to fix on any standard of value." It is frankly acknowledged by Newcomb that " a source of error in drawing conclusions" from average... | |
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