Principles of Political Economy: Deduced from the Natural Laws of Social Welfare and Applied to the Present State of Britain |
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... exchange of commodities is such , that , if we were confined to it , all commerce would soon be at a standstill . Nearly all the entries in all the ledgers of all the trading classes in the civilized world relate to transactions on ...
... exchange of commodities is such , that , if we were confined to it , all commerce would soon be at a standstill . Nearly all the entries in all the ledgers of all the trading classes in the civilized world relate to transactions on ...
Page 401
... exchange - namely , stability of value as a purchasing power . Whatever is employed as the medium for the exchange of equivalent objects must be itself equivalent to each . If no time were consumed in effecting exchanges , -if there ...
... exchange - namely , stability of value as a purchasing power . Whatever is employed as the medium for the exchange of equivalent objects must be itself equivalent to each . If no time were consumed in effecting exchanges , -if there ...
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... exchange of values , on the presumption of its remaining invariable in its value ; without which it cannot be a true measure of the value of the objects for which it is exchanged . A medium for the exchange of values , which itself ...
... exchange of values , on the presumption of its remaining invariable in its value ; without which it cannot be a true measure of the value of the objects for which it is exchanged . A medium for the exchange of values , which itself ...
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PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE ON the Coincidence of | 1 |
Primary Natural Rights1 To Personal | 13 |
Duty of a Government the securing | 28 |
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