 | William Stanley Jevons - Economics - 1879 - 434 pages
...chapter, the Theory of Labour. CHAPTER V. THEORY OF LABOUR. Definition of Labour. ADAM SMITH said, ' The real price of everything, what everything really...acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it. . . . Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money, that was paid for all things a.' If... | |
 | Hugh Bowlby Willson - Banks and banking - 1882 - 366 pages
...illustration, formulated by Adam Smith, who says, "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. What every thing is worth to the man who has acquired it, and wants to dispose of it, or exchange it for... | |
 | John Joseph Lalor - Economics - 1884 - 1254 pages
...its price. — Adam Smith Ijelicved that every article had two prices, a real and a nominal price. "The real price of everything, what everything really...acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it. * * Labor was the tirst price, the original purchase money that was paid for all things. * * Labor... | |
 | David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch - Economics - 1886 - 688 pages
...quantity of labour expended on each. " The real price of every thing," says Adam 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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1909 - 764 pages
...RATES Applying the rule laid down by Adam Smith, that " the real price of everything, what everything costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it," the foregoing means that the average purchaser of railway transportation now obtains passenger service... | |
 | Charles Francis Bastable - Commerce - 1887 - 198 pages
...not incur anything like the sacrifice that the collier does, who has to devote hour after hour " " What everything really costs to the man who wants...acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it." — Wealth of Natioiis (Ed. Nicholson), p. 12. of hard toil to obtain a similar result. Again, it is... | |
 | VAN BUREN DENSLOW - 1888 - 826 pages
...Quoting Adam Smith's definition, Adam Smith said: "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 Labor was the first price, the original purchase money, that was paid for all things." Mr. Jevons says:... | |
 | Van Buren Denslow - Economics - 1888 - 846 pages
...definition, Adam Smith said : "The real price of every thing, what every thing really costs to the roan who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it Labor was the first price, the original purchase money, that was paid for all things." Mr. Jevons says:... | |
 | Charles John Smith - English language - 1890 - 802 pages
...will fetch, and the VALUE (Fr. râleur; Lut. ritiere, to be worth) is what it ought to fetch. 281 " The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who want* tu uci{uire itf is the toll and trouble of притир it." — ADAM HMITH. " Already I am worn... | |
 | Caroline Louisa Hunt - Quotations - 1891 - 116 pages
...should be the embroidery of conversation, not the web, and wit the ornament of mind, not the furniture." The real price of everything, what everything really...acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it. ADAM SMITH. Dear to us are those who love us ; the swift moments we spend with them are a compensation... | |
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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. 
