| Franklin Monroe Sprague - Socialism - 1892 - 528 pages
...this theory, and eminent scholars and philanthropists have seemed to sanction it. Adam Smith says, " The real price of everything, what everything really...acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it." 1 Mr. Joseph Cook says, " The cost of producing labor should determine the price of labor." 2 "No one... | |
| Science - 1893 - 826 pages
...Exchange. — Ricardo then proceeds to show, by a quotaiion fiorn Adam Smith, which he accepts, that "The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, isthe toil and trouble of acquiring it. What everything is really worth to the man who has acquired... | |
| Economics - 1896 - 608 pages
...which was previously used in enunciating the principle that "the real price of everything, what it really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it."1 It is perhaps the most distinguishing merit of the Austrian school that they recognize in the... | |
| John Borden - Money - 1897 - 240 pages
...renders this scheme quite feasible. It is said 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." But neither this price nor the value of the thing when acquired is the same to everybody. One person... | |
| Economics - 1901 - 694 pages
...several unlike elements. On the other hand, Ricardo took as his starting point the proposition that "what everything really costs to the man who wants...acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it," and developed this into his ingenious theory that cost may be reduced to terms of labor only. Of course,... | |
| W. Tcherkesoff - Socialism - 1902 - 124 pages
...commodities, is egual to the quantity of labor which it enables him to purchase or command" (p. 38). 3. "The real price of everything, what everything really...acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it" (idem). 4. "What is bought with money or with goods, is purchased by labor" (idem). 5. "Labor, therefore,... | |
| Legislator - Commercial policy - 1903 - 336 pages
...which brought out this coincidence with his own views. The real price of everything, says Adam Smith, what everything really costs to the man who wants...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. . . . The... | |
| Percy Kinnaird - Banks and banking - 1904 - 346 pages
...may pursue his examination of the subject, to define the word " price," which he does as follows : " The real price of everything, what everything really...to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it."—Id., page 46. This is only another way of asserting that the labor expended in creating the... | |
| Charles John Smith - English language - 1904 - 800 pages
...what it will fetch, and the VALDI (Fr. inteiir ; Lat. vdiere, to be worth) is what it might to fetch. "The real price of everything, what everything really...man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble •)l acquiring it." — ADAH SMITH. ' Already 1 am worn with cares and age, And just abandoning the... | |
| William Bell Robertson - Economics - 1905 - 272 pages
...demonstration of the complete independence of value and wages. "The real price of everything," says Adam Smith, "what everything really costs to the man who wants...acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it." Now the amount of toil and trouble that a man will undergo to acquire anything will be determined by... | |
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