| Franklin Monroe Sprague - Socialism - 1892 - 528 pages
...philanthropists have seemed to sanction it. Adam Smith 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." 1 Mr. Joseph Cook says, " The cost of producing labor should determine the price of labor." 2 "No one... | |
| David Ricardo - Economics - 1895 - 166 pages
...quantity of labour expended on each. " The real price of everything," says Adam Smith, " 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... | |
| 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
...elements. On the other hand, Ricardo took as his starting point the proposition that "what everything really costs to the man who wants to 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
...which it enables him to purchase or command" (p. 38). 3. "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" (idem). 4. "What is bought with money or with goods, is purchased by labor" (idem). 5. "Labor, therefore,... | |
| George Lisle - Accounting - 1903 - 556 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... | |
| Legislator - Commercial policy - 1903 - 336 pages
...this coincidence with his own views. The real price of everything, says Adam Smith, 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. . . . The... | |
| Percy Kinnaird - Banks and banking - 1904 - 346 pages
...define the word " price," which he does as follows : " 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."—Id., page 46. This is only another way of asserting that the labor expended in creating the... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce - Railroad law - 1905 - 1150 pages
...conveniences, and amusements of human life. * • • 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... | |
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