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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. "
On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation - Page 3
by David Ricardo - 1821 - 538 pages
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Principles of Political Economy, Volume 1

Thomas Robert Malthus - Business & Economics - 1989 - 518 pages
...quantity of labour which it enables him to purchase or command. . . . 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.' (Wealth of Nations, Bk. I, Ch. V, ed. 6, p. 44; Glasgow ed., I. v. 1-2.) 1 .63y Malthus obviously intended...
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The Growth of Economic Thought

Henry William Spiegel - Business & Economics - 1991 - 904 pages
...laboring himself to produce what he obtains in exchange. Smith continues: The real price of every thing, what every thing really costs to the man who wants...it. What every thing is really worth to the man who THE DETAILS OF something else, is the toil and trouble which it can save to himself, and which it can...
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Evolutionary Economics

David Hamilton - Economics - 1970 - 158 pages
...painful and is undertaken at the cost of happiness. Again he states "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."7 It is true that Adam Smith abandoned the strict labor B Smith, op. cit., p. 47. • Ibid., p....
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Marketing the Public Sector

Finer - 386 pages
...attached greater significance to the latter, holding that 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 concept of social price is entirely analogous to the economic idea of psychic income, the psychological...
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David Ricardo: Critical Assessments. Second series

John Cunningham Wood - Business & Economics - 1994 - 424 pages
...work (which is directly related to the following section on subjective value). Smith observed: '. . . what every thing really costs to the man who wants...acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it' (Smith, 1776, p. 30). 'Trouble', of course, can include the risk and other burdens of the 'masters'....
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Adam Smith: Critical Assessments, Volume 3

John Cunningham Wood - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 664 pages
...exceeds effectual demand, resources will be withdrawn from production, and vice versa. of every thing, what every thing really costs to the man who wants...acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it" [45, p. 30]. '2 Smith's theory is considered naive on several counts. The primary problem is lack of...
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Production and Distribution Theories

George Joseph Stigler - Business & Economics - 1994 - 408 pages
...chapter on labor with a famous quotation from 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. ... Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money, that was paid for all things." Jevons...
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Health Care Marketing: A Foundation for Managed Quality

Philip D. Cooper - Hastahane ekonomisi - 1994 - 548 pages
...Adam Smith attached greater significance to the latter: 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 (in Kotler 1975. p. 176). FOUR TYPES OF SOClAL PRlCE Four categories of resources are suggested as...
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Famous Lines: A Columbia Dictionary of Familiar Quotations

Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...poet, philosopher. Fortune of the Republic (Ì 87 8). 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. ADAM SMITH, (1 723-1 790) Scottish economist. The Wealth of Nations, vol. 1 , bk. 1 , ch. 5(1776)....
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Guidebook for Attracting Paratransit Patrons to Fixed-route Services

John N. Balog, National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board - Social Science - 1997 - 404 pages
...Adam Smith attached greater significance to the latter: "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."9 Price refers to the indirect costs of time, inconvenience, social costs, and risks that riders...
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