 In speaking then of commodities, of their exchangeable value, and of the laws which regulate their relative prices, we mean always such commodities only as can be increased in quantity by the exertion of human industry, and on the production of which...  The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation - Page 7by David Ricardo - 1911 - 455 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1817 - 708 pages
...almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them. " In speaking then of commodities, of their exchangeable...be increased in quantity by the exertion of human indussry, and on the production of which competition operates without restraint." In the early stages... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1821 - 624 pages
...production. Scarcity he puts out of the question, as he confines bis reasonings to such cotnuiudiiies as can be increased in quantity by the exertion of...industry, and on the production of which, competition acts without restraint. ' The quantity of * labour realized in commodities,' is that which, in bis... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - Economics - 1823 - 424 pages
...mind, that the question applies to " such commodities only," to borrow the words of Mr. Ricardo, " as can be increased in quantity by the exertion of...of which competition operates without restraint." Monopolized commodities are acknowleged, on all hands, to depend as to price upon the principle of... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - Economics - 1823 - 420 pages
...mind, that the question applies to " such commodities only," to borrow the words of Mr. Ricardo, " as can be increased in quantity by the exertion of...of which competition operates without restraint." Monopolized commodities are acknowleged, on all hands, to depend as to price upon the principle of... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - Value - 1825 - 318 pages
...kind he regards as comparatively unimportant, and therefore professes to restrict his inquiries to " such commodities only as can be increased in quantity...of which competition operates without restraint." Instead, however, of confining himself to these commodities, he enters into the consideration of the... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 264 pages
...that, in every case, the exchangeable value of such as can be increased in quantity by the exertions of human industry, and on the production of which competition operates without restraint, can only be augmented by an augmentation of the quantity of labour necessarily required to bring them... | |
 | 1861 - 612 pages
...necessary to obtain them. " In speaking, then, of commodities, of their exchangeable value, and of tha laws which regulate their relative prices, we mean always such commodities only as can bo increased in quantity by the exertion of unman industry, and OB the production of which competition... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1853 - 540 pages
...that, in every case, the exchangeable value of such as can be increased in quantity by the exertions of human industry, and on the production of which competition operates without restraint, can only be augmented by an augmentation of the quantity of labour necessarily required to bring them... | |
 | Henry Dunning Macleod - Economics - 1858 - 626 pages
...Political Economy and Taxation. 3rd Edit. p. 333. •}• Hansard Parl. Debs. New series, Vol. vii. p. 949. "In speaking, then, of commodities, of their exchangeable...of which competition operates without restraint."* 9. To this we reply tliat the exclusion of the classes of articles, which are not the subject of unlimited... | |
 | Richard Jones - 1859 - 674 pages
...that, in speaking of commodities and of their exchangeable value, we are to mean only such commodities as can be increased in quantity by the exertion of...production of which competition operates without restraint. If we admit this, then, increased demand leads so immediately to increased supply that they may, for... | |
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