| English language - 1871 - 630 pages
...will fetch, and the VALUE is what it ought to fetch. " The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to 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 - 392 pages
...true theory of value. When, for example, he says : " The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it. What everything is really worth to the man who has acquired it, and who wants to dispose of it, is the toil... | |
| 1873 - 46 pages
...by it, both pecuniarily and morally. The Real Price. THE real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it. What everything is really worth to the man who has acquired it, and who wants to dispose of it or exchange... | |
| Bonamy Price - Collection "Economies." - 1878 - 614 pages
...value Mr Shadwell finds in these words of Adam Smith: " The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to 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,... | |
| William Stanley Jevons - Economics - 1879 - 434 pages
...THEORY OF LABOUR. Definition of Labour. ADAM SMITH said, ' The real price of everything, what everything 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 a.' If... | |
| Walter Bagehot - Economics - 1880 - 236 pages
...measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities. The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it. What everything is really worth to the man who has acquired it, and who wants to dispose of it or exchange... | |
| Henry Mayers Hyndman - Democracy - 1881 - 222 pages
...is the source of value. " The real price of everything," says Adam Smith himself, " what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it. What everything is really worth to the man who has acquired it, and who wants to dispose of it or exchange... | |
| Henry Mayers Hyndman - Democracy - 1881 - 212 pages
...is the source of value. " The real price of everything," says Adam Smith himself, "what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it. What everything is really worth to the man who has acquired it, and who wants to dispose of it or exchange... | |
| Adam Smith - Economics - 1884 - 604 pages
...measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities. The real price of every thing, v*b*l е»егт thing really costs to the man who wants to acquire...is the toil and trouble of acquiring it. What every tiling is really worth to the man who has acquired it nuil n ho wants to dispose of it, or exchange... | |
| John Joseph Lalor - Economics - 1884 - 1254 pages
...article had two prices, a real and a nominal price. "The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to 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... | |
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