 | William Bell Robertson - Economics - 1905 - 272 pages
...independence of value and wages. "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." Now the amount of toil and trouble that a man will undergo to acquire anything will be determined by... | |
 | Charles John Smith - English language - 1904 - 800 pages
...Lat. vdiere, to be worth) is what it might to fetch. "The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble •)l acquiring it." — ADAH SMITH. ' Already 1 am worn with cares and age, And just abandoning the... | |
 | John Spargo - Socialism - 1906 - 292 pages
...paribus." * Adam Smith, in a well-known passage, 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 or exchange... | |
 | Herbert Joseph Davenport - Economics - 1907 - 618 pages
...to the primary, the real -value concept: "The real price of everything, what everything really costs the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it" — labor cost of some sort: but "what everything is really worth to the man who has acquired it is... | |
 | Albion W. Small - Economics - 1907 - 290 pages
...his theory of exchanges. Thus he says: I3 I f The real price of everything, what everything really II costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and IV trouble of acquiring it. What everything is really worth \/ to the man who has acquired it, and... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1909 - 898 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... | |
 | Lewis Henry Haney - Economics - 1911 - 598 pages
...value in use and value in exchange unrelated and apart. " The real price of everything," he says, " what every thing really costs to the man who wants...acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it." 3 Accordingly a cost theory is the 1 Not marginal utility, but general capacity to satisfy wants regardless... | |
 | John SPARGO (and ARNER (George Byron Louis)), George Byron Louis Arner - Socialism - 1912 - 424 pages
...Smith, in his Wealth of Nations, takes the same view: "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 Clay Vedder - Christian sociology - 1912 - 568 pages
...Smith, in his "Wealth of Nations," and much good may the honor do him. He said : " 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... | |
 | John Orr - Land - 1912 - 142 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." * The difficulty of accounting for the wide disparity in the values of water and of diamonds according... | |
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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. 
