| Roberto Marchionatti - Capitalism - 1998 - 376 pages
...asserted its validity as something self-explanatory. The celebrated passage in Adam Smith, which Ricardo afterwards verbally adopted in his own doctrine, runs...everything is really worth to the man who has acquired it, amid who wants to dispose of it, or exchange it for something else, is the toil and trouble which it... | |
| Ross C. Brownson, Diana B. Petitti - Epidemiology - 1998 - 418 pages
...in beliefs or habits) or tangible (eg, money, time, or travel). Kotler quotes Adam Smith as saying: "The real price of everything, what everything really...acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it" (Brehony et al. 1984). For example, informing women about the risk of alcohol and breast cancer may... | |
| Walter A. Weisskopf - Medical - 1955 - 276 pages
...was used by the marginalist and neoclassical schools: 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 ... is the toil and trouble which it can... | |
| Donald Rutherford - Business & Economics - 1999 - 526 pages
...quantity of labour expended on each. '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... | |
| Steven Schroeder - Philosophy - 2000 - 164 pages
...purchase or command. Labor, therefore, is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities. The real price of everything, what everything really...it. What everything is really worth to the man who lias acquired it, and who wants to dispose of it or exchange it for something else, is the toil and... | |
| Business & Economics - 2000 - 724 pages
...value in use and value in exchange unrelated and apart. " The real price of everything," he says, " what everything really costs to the man who wants...acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it." 2 Accordingly, without adequate consideration of the case of natural scarcity, a cost theory is the... | |
| Economics - 2000 - 326 pages
...exchangeable value of all commodities. '1 The real price of every thing, what every thing Real pri«. 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... | |
| David L. Sills, Robert King Merton - Social Science - 2000 - 466 pages
...Wealth of Nations (1776) 1937: Book 1, chap. 4, 28. 9 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. . . Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. The Wealth... | |
| Henry S. Kramer - Business & Economics - 2001 - 384 pages
...employees actually work, but the former figure is the measure more widely used. VARIABLE AND FIXED COSTS "The real price of everything, what everything really...acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it." [Adam Smith] When the time comes, and it will inevitably come, for you as a negotiator to figure out... | |
| Albino F. Barrera, OP - Religion - 2001 - 360 pages
...mechanism by virtue of which social order reigns" (emphasis added). 4. Smith ([1776] 1937, 34-35) observes: "|T|he real price of everything, what everything really...acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it. . . ." He further notes, "[Labor is) the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities."... | |
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