| Paul Ghio - Economics - 1923 - 212 pages
...measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities. 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 really worth to the man who has acquired it and who wants to dispose of it, or exchangeit... | |
| Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott - Economics - 1923 - 352 pages
...measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities. The real price of everything, what every thing really costs to the man who wants to acquire it is the toil and trouble of acquiring it'. Underlying this passage there are, it will be noted, two distinct ideas : that labour is at once the... | |
| George Binney Dibblee - Economics - 1924 - 330 pages
...sense gave its expression a turn which brings it very near the modern definition of subjective Value. " The real Price of everything, what everything really...acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it." Ricardo also, in his brilliant, intelligent way, limited his statement of the labourcost theory of... | |
| Arthur Shadwell - Communism - 1925 - 236 pages
...the relative quantity of labour which is necessary for its production.' He then quotes Adam Smith:• '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.' Before Adam... | |
| Lionel Danforth Edie, Benjamin Palmer Whitaker - Economics - 1927 - 184 pages
...(CONDILLAC.) (c) "Labour, therefore, is the real measure of the exchangeable value of commodities. . . . The real price of everything, what everything really...acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it." (ADAM SMITH.) will produce that determines their present and past relative value, and not the comparative... | |
| Luigi Ruggiu - Business & Economics - 1982 - 412 pages
...significati. Vedi SMITH A., Inquiry, cit., I. v. 2: « 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 ». A che cosa è dovuto questo appesantimento, assente in Lectures on Jurisprudence? A livello ideologico... | |
| Thomas Robert Malthus - Business & Economics - 1989 - 518 pages
...which it enables him to purchase or command. . . . 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.' (Wealth of Nations, Bk. I, Ch. V, ed. 6, p. 44; Glasgow ed., I. v. 1-2.) 1 .63y Malthus obviously intended... | |
| Marc Reed Tool, Warren J. Samuels - Business & Economics - 1989 - 610 pages
...natural liberty. Concerning the first. Smith observed: "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" ;45, p. 301.12 Smith's theory is considered naive on several counts. The primary problem is lack of... | |
| Henry William Spiegel - Business & Economics - 1991 - 904 pages
...produce what he obtains in exchange. Smith continues: 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 really worth to the man who THE DETAILS OF something else, is the toil and trouble which... | |
| John Cunningham Wood - Business & Economics - 1991 - 230 pages
...doctrine of real cost corresponds Smith's statement that '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 really worth to the man who has acquired it, and who wants to dispose of it, or exchange... | |
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