 | William Cunningham - Great Britain - 1892 - 798 pages
...between Laud and Labour, so as we might express the value by either of them alone as well or better then by both, and reduce one into the other as easily and certainly as we reduce pence into pounds." P. 25. , Essay in Select Tracts, 187. Convention Raising money. Vauqhan 1673? AJX 1603 countries ;... | |
 | Edmond George Petty-Fitzmaurice Baron Fitzmaurice - Economists - 1895 - 367 pages
...of political economy. ' All things,' he says, ' ought to be valued by two natural denominations, " land and labour: " that is, we ought to say a ship...easily and certainly as we reduce pence into pounds.' ] He does not, however, attempt a further development of the idea, although there is another reference... | |
 | Sir William Petty, John Graunt - Economics - 1899 - 422 pages
...4. Land and Labour, so as we might express the value by either of them alone as well or better then by both, and reduce one into the other as easily and certainly as we reduce pence into pounds. Wherefore we would be glad to finde the natural values of the Fee simple of Land, though but no better... | |
 | Arthur Eli Monroe - Economics - 1924 - 416 pages
...between Land and Labour, so as we might express the value by either of them alone as well or better then by both, and reduce one into the other as easily and certainly as we reduce pence into pounds. Wherefore we would be glad to finde the natural values of the Fee simple of Land, though but no better... | |
 | Edwin Cannan - Business & Economics - 1964 - 480 pages
...should be glad to find out a natural Par between land and labour, so as we might express the value by either of them alone as well or better than by both,...easily and certainly as we reduce pence into pounds." (Treatise of Taxes, chap, iv, § 18; in Econ. Writings, pp. 44-5.) In a later work he says " how to... | |
 | Philip Mirowski - Business & Economics - 1991 - 468 pages
...natural Par between Land and Labour, so as we might express the value of either of them alone as well as or better than by both, and reduce one into the other...easily and certainly as we reduce pence into pounds [I, pp. 44-5]. The phrasing is inadvertently revealing: Petty here admits that what is required is... | |
 | James Maitland Earl of Lauderdale - Business & Economics - 1996 - 184 pages
...should be glad to find out a natural Par between Land & Labour, so as we might express the value by either of them alone as well or better than by both,...easily and certainly as we reduce pence into pounds. Treatise on [sic] Taxes and Contributions p. 24-25. Qt" Ed: *** V. 2, P. 101 [Gl. edn, p. 516] p. 44... | |
 | Antoin E. Murphy, Chūhei Sugiyama - Money - 1997 - 416 pages
...between Land and Labour, so as we might express the value by either of them alone as well or better then by both, and reduce one into the other as easily and certainly as we reduce pence into pounds. Wherefore we would be glad to finde the natural values of the Fee simple of Land, though but no better... | |
 | Andrea Lynne Finkelstein - Business & Economics - 2009 - 392 pages
...between Land and Labour, so as we might eepress the value by cither of them alone as well or better then by both, and reduce one into the other as easily and certainly as we reduce pence into pounds.'" If a common denominator could be found, it would have to be expressed in monetary terms: [The] common... | |
 | Richard Cantillon - Business & Economics - 218 pages
...have done after him." Now, in Sir W. Petty 's very remarkable Treatise of Taxes and Contributions', of which the first edition was published in 1662,...ideas. From a paper read by Mr WH Hardinge to the Royal Irish Academy, 8th May 1865, and printed in the Transactions of the Academy, vol. XXIV, we learn... | |
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All things ought to be valued by two natural denominations, which is land and labour; that is, we ought to say, a ship or garment is worth such a measure of land, with such another measure of labour; forasmuch as both ships and garments were the creatures... 
