 | William Atkinson - Economics - 1858 - 698 pages
...Labour, therefore, is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities." Again : — " The real price of everything, what everything really...acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it." , Again : — " Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things.... | |
 | Royal Society of Tasmania - Science - 1894 - 810 pages
...of Exchange.—Ricardo then proceeds to show, by a quotation fom Adam Smith, which he accepts, that “The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is tile toil and trouble of acquiring it. What everything is really worth to the man who has acquired... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1869 - 576 pages
...measure of of an aore of a naturally rich pasture, in CHAP. v. THE WEALTH OF NATIONS. 31 The rcnl price1 of everything, what everything really costs to the...to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.2 What everything is really worth to the man who has acquired it, and who wants to dispose of it... | |
 | 1870 - 764 pages
..."Wealth of Nations" which touch the very core of the true theory of value. When, for example, he says : " The real price of everything, what everything really...who has acquired it, and who wants to dispose of it, is the toil and trouble which it can save to himself, and which it can impose upon other people : "... | |
 | 1870 - 770 pages
..."Wealth of Nations" which touch the very core of the true theory of value. When, for example, he says : " The real price of everything, what everything really...who has acquired it, and who wants to dispose of it, is the toil and trouble which it can save to himself, and which it can impose upon other people : "... | |
 | English language - 1871 - 630 pages
...be paid to procure it. The WOBTH is what it will fetch, and the VALUE is what it ought to fetch. " The real price of everything, what everything really...acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it." — Adam Smith. '- Al ready I am worn with cares and age, And just abandoning the ungrateful stage.... | |
 | John Elliott Cairnes - Bimetallism - 1873 - 454 pages
...of Nations " which touch the very core of the true theory of value. When, for example, he says : " The real price of everything, what everything really...who has acquired it, and who wants to dispose of it, is the toil and trouble which it can save to himself, and which it can impose upon other people : "... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1875 - 808 pages
...exchangeable value of all commodities. Thcreal price of everything, what everything really costs tothemanwho 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... | |
 | John Emelius Lancelot Shadwell - Economics - 1877 - 662 pages
...ability, the fitness of labour to be employed as a measure of value. " The real price," he says, " of everything, what everything really costs to the...acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it." That is to say, that every one has to acquire commodities by means of labour, and that the greater... | |
 | Bonamy Price - Collection "Economies." - 1878 - 614 pages
...commodity. The description of this measure of value Mr Shadwell finds in these words of Adam Smith: " The real price of everything, what everything really...acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it" That is to say, interprets Mr Shadwell, that everyone has to acquire commodities by means of labour,... | |
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The 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. 
