 The nature of things has stamped upon corn a real value, which cannot be altered by merely altering its money price. No bounty upon exportation, no monopoly of the home market, can raise that value. The freest competition cannot lower it.  An Essay on the External Corn Trade - Page 66by Robert Torrens - 1826 - 416 pagesFull view - About this book
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 | Walter Scott - Europe - 1814 - 542 pages
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 | David Ricardo - Classical school of economics - 1821 - 564 pages
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...order to keep the supply level with the demand ^ 5. — Erroneous Views of Dr. Smith respecting tJie Value of Corn, Adam Smith has said*, that the nature...the cost of producing corn may increase or diminish, withoutoccasioning a proportional increase or diminution in the cost of producing other things, a given... | |
 | Scotland - 1830 - 1016 pages
...employ them in one trade, they will employ themselves more profitably in some other. * Smith says, " the nature of things has stamped upon corn a real value, which cannot be altered by merely altering hs money price. No bounty upon exportation, no monopoly of the... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1836 - 536 pages
...growth of corn, because you do not enable them to maintain and employ more labourers in raising it. The nature of things has stamped upon corn a real value which cannot be altered by merely altering its money price. No bounty upon exportation, no monopoly of the... | |
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...! I learn from Colonel Torrens, " that Adam Smith is fundamentally wrong in stating , that corn has a real value which is always equal to the quantity of labour which it can maintain." 67 Perhaps Colonel Torrens harmonizes with the French economists. Far from it. He says, " that the... | |
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