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Political Economy: An Inquiry Into the Natural Grounds of Right to Vendible ... - Page 203
by Samuel Read - 1829 - 398 pages
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Free Trade, Or an Inquiry Into the Expediency of the Present Corn-laws (etc.)

Alexander Mac-Donnell - Free trade - 1826 - 540 pages
...simple expence of living which strikes common observation. He observes, " equal quantities of labour, at all times and places, may be said to be of equal value to the labourers. In the ordinary state of health, strength, and spirits ; in the ordinary degree of his skill...
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A Treatise on Political Economy: Or, The Production, Distribution and ...

Jean Baptiste Say - Economics - 1827 - 522 pages
...measure of absent or distant value; he reasons thus upon the matter: " Equal quantities of labour, at all times and places, may be said to be of equal...dexterity, he must always lay down the same portion of hisease, his liberty, and his happiness. The price, which he pays, must always be the same, whatever...
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Definitions in Political Economy: Preceded by an Inquiry Into the Rules ...

Thomas Robert Malthus - Classical school of economics - 1827 - 322 pages
...even when it is acknowledged, that the labourer at different times and in different countries does not always lay down the same portion of his ease, his liberty, and happiness, the quality of labour, as a measure of value, is not essentially impaired ; and it appears...
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Definitions in political economy

Thomas Robert Malthus - 1827 - 324 pages
...in different countries, it is not really true, as stated by him, that the labourer in working " lays down the same portion of his ease, his liberty, and his happiness."* There is the best reason to believe that the labourer in India, and in many other countries, neither...
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A Treatise on Political Economy: Or, The Production, Distribution, and ...

Jean Baptiste Say - Economics - 1832 - 530 pages
...measure of absent or distant value; he reasons thus upon the matter: " Equal quantities of labour, at all times and places, may be said to be of equal...dexterity, he must always lay down the same portion of his case, his liberty, and his happiness. The price, which he pays, must always be the same, whatever may...
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A Treatise on Political Economy: Or The Production, Distribution, and ...

Jean Baptiste Say - Economics - 1836 - 508 pages
...appropriate, measure of absent or distant value; he reasons thus upon the matter: "Equal quantities of labour, at all times and places, may be said to be of equal...ease, his liberty, and his happiness. The price, which ne pays, must always be the same, whatever may be the quantity of goods which he receives in return...
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith - Economics - 1838 - 476 pages
...value, can never be an accurate measure of the value of other commodities. Equal quantities of labour, at all times and places, may be said to be of equal...which he pays must always be the same, whatever may l>e the quantity of goods which he receives in return for it Of these, indeed, it may sometimes purchase...
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Southern Quarterly Review, Volume 11

Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1847 - 558 pages
...Dr. Smith says below, that labor always remains of the same value, because it costs the laborer, when "in his ordinary state of health, strength, and spirits,...in the ordinary degree of his skill and dexterity," "the same portion of his ease, his liberty, and his happiness." (p. 15.) But this is not the exchangeable...
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Adam Smith en zijn Onderzoek naar den rijkdom der volken: akademisch ...

Joannes Franciscus Benjamin Baert - Economics - 1858 - 300 pages
...dezelfde, en heeft daarom voor hem eene gelijke onveranderlijke waarde. // Equal quan#tities of labour, at all times and places, may be said '/ to be of equal value to the labourer. In his ordinary u state of health , strength and spirits , in the ordinary '/ degree of his skill and dexterity, hè...
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The Elements of Political Economy

Henry Dunning Macleod - Economics - 1858 - 636 pages
...which it can save to himself, and which it can impose on other people." "Equal quantities of labor, at all times and places, may be said to be of equal value to the laborer." "Labor alone, therefore, never varying in its own value, is alone the ultimate and real standard...
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