 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Phillips Thompson - Labor - 1887 - 226 pages
...chapter of his " Wealth of Nations " we read : — '' 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... | |
 | Charles Francis Bastable - Commerce - 1887 - 262 pages
...anything like the sacrifice that the collier does, who has to devote hour after hour " " What everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it." — Wealth of Nations (Ed. Nicholson), p. 12. of hard toil to obtain a similar result. Again, it is... | |
 | VAN BUREN DENSLOW - 1888 - 826 pages
...dimensions—intensity and time. Quoting Adam Smith's definition, Adam Smith said: "The real price of every thing, what every thing really costs to the man who wants...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:... | |
 | George Dana Boardman - Ten commandments - 1889 - 396 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... | |
 | Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk - Capital - 1890 - 488 pages
...afterwards verbally adopted in his own doctrine, runs thus : " 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... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - English literature - 1891 - 728 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... | |
 | Louis Mallet - Bimetallism - 1891 - 398 pages
...measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities. The real price of everything, what everything 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... | |
 | Caroline Louisa Hunt - Quotations - 1891 - 116 pages
...web, and wit the ornament of mind, not the furniture." 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. 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 everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it. 
