 No equal quantity of productive labour employed in manufactures can ever occasion so great a reproduction. In them nature does nothing; man does all; and the reproduction must always be in proportion to the strength of the agents that occasion it.  An essay on the external corn trade - Page 150by Robert Torrens - 1826 - 416 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Walter Bagehot - Economics - 1880 - 236 pages
...work of man. It is seldom less than a fourth, and frequently more than a third, of the whole produce. No equal quantity of productive labour employed in...manufactures can ever occasion so great a reproduction. In them nature does nothing; man does all; and the reproduction must always be in proportion to the... | |
 | David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch - Economics - 1886 - 688 pages
...work of man. It is seldom less than a t'ourth, and frequently more than a third of the whole produce. No equal quantity of productive labour employed in manufactures, can ever occasion so great a reproducThe rise of rent is always the effect of the increasing wealth of the country, and of the difficulty... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1894 - 526 pages
...work of man. It is seldom less than a fourth, and frequently more than a third of the whole produce. No equal quantity of productive labour employed in...manufactures can ever occasion so great a reproduction. In them nature does nothing; man does all; and the reproduction must always be in proportion to the... | |
 | David Ricardo - Economics - 1895 - 166 pages
...work of man. It is seldom less than a fourth, and frequently more than a third of the whole produce. No equal quantity of productive labour employed in...manufactures, can ever occasion so great a reproduction. In them nature does nothing, man does all; and the reproduction must always be in proportion to the... | |
 | Edwin Burgis - Great Britain - 1895 - 276 pages
...which remains, after deducting or compensating everything which can be regarded as the work of man. No equal quantity of productive labour employed in manufactures can ever occasion so great reproduction. In them Nature does nothing; man does all ; and the reproduction must always be in proportion... | |
 | David Ricardo - Economics - 1919 - 530 pages
...quantity which falls to the share of the farmer, but also that which is paid as rent to the landlord . Mr. Malthus says, " It has been justly observed by...manufactures can ever occasion so great a reproduction as iu agriculture." If Adam Smith speaks of value, he is correct ; i but if he speaks of riches, which... | |
 | David Ricardo - Corn laws (Great Britain) - 1923 - 360 pages
...of corn. ยง 17. I cannot agree with Mr Malthus in his approbation of the opinion of Adam Smith,1 " that no equal quantity of productive labour employed...occasion so great a re-production as in agriculture." I suppose that he must have overlooked the term ever in this passage, otherwise the opinion is more... | |
 | David Ricardo - Economics - 1928 - 376 pages
...would be imported.*0 (5) Malthus agreed with Adam Smith that " no equal quantity of productive labor employed in manufactures can ever occasion so great a reproduction as in agriculture." True, commented Ricardo, as to value, but not as to riches; for riches consist of " the necessaries,... | |
 | Alastair Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton, Harold Coffin Syrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1966 - 656 pages
...labour costs no expence, its produce has its value, as well as that of the most expensive workmen. . . . No equal quantity of productive labour employed in...manufactures can ever occasion so great a reproduction. In them nature does nothing; man does all; and the reproduction must always be in proportion to the... | |
 | James Maitland Earl of Lauderdale - Business & Economics - 1996 - 184 pages
...work of man. It is seldom less than a fourth, and frequently more than a third of the whole produce. No equal quantity of productive labour employed in...manufactures can ever occasion so great a reproduction. In them nature does nothing; man does all; and the reproduction must always be in proportion to the... | |
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