 | David Ricardo - Economics - 1821 - 560 pages
...goods is measured by the quantity of the produce of our ! land and labour, which is given in exchange for them, we should have no greater value, if by the...foreign goods in exchange for a given quantity of our's. If by the purchase of English goods to the amount of 1000/., a merchant can obtain a quantity... | |
 | J. C. Ross - Economics - 1827 - 486 pages
...advantageous to all parties, will not be carried on. them, we could not increase the value, although, by the discovery of new markets, we obtained double the quantity of foreign commodities in exchange for a given quantity of ours : neither the gains of the merchant, nor the value... | |
 | George Robert Gleig - India - 1830 - 472 pages
...powerfully to increase the mass of commodities." " As the value of all foreign goods is measured hy the quantity of the produce of our land, and labour...introduction of cheap foreign goods I can save 20 per cent, from my expenditure, the effect will be precisely the same as if machinery had lowered the... | |
 | A British merchant - Banks and banking - 1855 - 392 pages
...goods is measured by the quantity of the produce of our land and labour which is given in exchange for them, we should have no greater value, if, by...foreign goods in exchange for a given quantity of ours," &c. — Principles of Political Economy and Taxation. By D. Ricardo, Esq. London, 1817, p. 146. P in... | |
 | David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch - Economics - 1886 - 688 pages
...goods is measured by the quantity of the produce of our land and labour, which is given in exchange for them, we should have no greater value, if by the...discovery of new markets, we obtained double the quantity <>t foreign goods in exchange for a given quantity of ours. If by the purchase of English goods to... | |
 | Ezekiel J. Donnell - Economics - 1888 - 84 pages
...as the value of all foreign goods is measured by the quantity of the produce of our land and labor which is given for them, we should have no greater...foreign goods in exchange for a given quantity of ours." Ricardo's theories of value, of rent, and of wages are no better. They are all ideal conceptions which... | |
 | Economics - 1894 - 784 pages
...capital or labour where we might expect both. These explanations apply to the following passages : — We should have no greater value if, by the discovery...goods in exchange for a given quantity of ours (p. 72). TUe country may have ' greater skill ' and ' better machinery ' used in the manufacture of exportable... | |
 | Economics - 1894 - 822 pages
...capital or labour where we might expect both. These explanations apply to the following passages : — We should have no greater value if, by the discovery...goods in exchange for a given quantity of ours (p. 72). The country may have ' greater skill ' and ' better machinery ' used in the manufacture of exportable... | |
 | David Ricardo - Economics - 1919 - 526 pages
...goods is measured by the quantity of the produce of our land and labour, which is given in exchange for them, we should have no greater value, if by the...foreign goods in exchange for a given quantity of ours. If by the purchase of English goods to the amount of =£1,000, a merchant can obtain a quantity of... | |
 | Francis Ysidro Edgeworth - Economics - 1925 - 510 pages
...capital or labour where we might expect both. These explanations apply to the following passages : " We should have no greater value if, by the discovery...goods in exchange for a given quantity of ours ' ' (p. 72). " The country may have ' greater skill ' and ' better machinery ' used in the manufacture of exportable... | |
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As the value of all foreign goods is measured by the quantity of the produce of our land and labour, which is given in exchange for them, we should have no greater value, if by the discovery of new markets, we obtained double the quantity of foreign goods... 
