| J. C. Ross - 1827 - 462 pages
...to purchase it, is the labour, that is, the toil and trouble necessary to acquire it. What any thing is really worth to the man who has acquired it, and who wants to dispose of it, or, which is the same thing, to exchange it for something else, is the labour which will be saved to himself,... | |
| J. C. Ross - Economics - 1827 - 486 pages
...the real price of any thing is the labour invested or expended in its production. What any thing is worth to the man who has acquired it, and who wants to exchange it for something else, is the labour which it cost him to procure it ; and that, for which... | |
| Samuel Read - Economics - 1829 - 444 pages
...said in support of his position. " The real price of every thing," says Dr Smith, " what every thing really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it. What every thing is really worth to the man who has acquired it, and who wants to dispose of it or exchange... | |
| Adam Smith - Economics - 1838 - 476 pages
...costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it. What every thing is really worth to the man who has acquired it and who wants lu dispose of it, or exchange it for something «lie, ¡e the toil and trouble which it can save to... | |
| Periodicals - 1844 - 288 pages
...feeling of the artist and the science of the architect. THB real price of every thing, what every thing really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it." What every thing is really worth to the man who has acquired it, and who wants to dispose of it, or exchange... | |
| Travers Twiss - Business & Economics - 1847 - 358 pages
...exchangeable value of all commodities. " The real price of every thing, what every thing Eeai price, really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it. What every thing is really worth to the man who has acquired it, and who wants to dispose of it, or exchange... | |
| Sir Travers Twiss - Economics - 1847 - 356 pages
...exchangeable value of all commodities. " The real price of every thing, what every thing Eeai price, really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it. What every thing is really worth to the man who has acquired it, and who wants to dispose of it, or exchange... | |
| Dugald Stewart - Economics - 1855 - 490 pages
...reasoning, but, in my opinion, one not more satisfactory. " The real price of everything," he observes, " what everything really costs to the man who wants...has acquired it, and who wants to dispose of it, or change it for something else, is the toil and trouble which it can save to himself, and which it can... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 490 pages
...reasoning, but, in my opinion, one not more satisfactory. " The real price of everything," he observes, " what everything really costs to the man who wants...has acquired it, and who wants to dispose of it, or change it for something else, is the toil and trouble which it can save to himself, and which it can... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 496 pages
...reasoning, but, in my opinion, one not more satisfactory. " The real price of everything," he observes, " what everything really costs to the man who wants...has acquired it, and who wants to dispose of it, or change it for something else, is the toil and trouble which it can save to himself, and which it can... | |
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