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Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold, has its natural and its market price.

David Ricardo

Whether a bank lent one million, ten million, or a hundred millions, they would not permanently alter the market rate of interest; they would alter only the value of the money they issued.
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Bank Issue Loan Money Value
It is not by the absolute quantity of produce obtained by either class, that we can correctly judge of the rate of profit, rent, and wages, but by the quantity of labour required to obtain that produce.
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Absolute Production Quantity Rate Requirement
As the revenue of the farmer is realized in raw produce, or in the value of raw produce, he is interested, as well as the landlord, in its high exchangeable value, but a low price of produce may be compensated to him by a great additional quantity.
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Additional exchange Farmer Production Quantity Revenue Value
If then the prosperity of the commercial classes, will most certainly lead to accumulation of capital, and the encouragement of productive industry; these can by no means be so surely obtained as by a fall in the price of corn.
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Capital Class Commercial Encouragement Prosperity
In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain the same quantity of circulating medium which it before possessed.
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Nation Possession Quantity Wasted Time
There can be no greater error then in supposing that capital is increased by non-consumption.
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Consumption Errors Greatness Increase
Whenever the current of money is forcibly stopped, and when money is prevented from settling at its just level, there are no limits to the possible variations of the exchange.
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Current exchange Money Prevent Variation
Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.
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Material Money Tools Work
A rise in wages, from an alteration in the value of money, produces a general effect on price, and for that reason it produces no real effect whatever on profits.
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Money Production Profit Real Rise Value
Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcity, and from the quantity of labour required to obtain them.
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Commodity Possession Require Source Value
The factors left out of the Ricardian equation are falling wages and idle capacity.
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Capacity Equation Factor
I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind.
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Greatness Honesty Mindset Powerful Thinking
I have already expressed my opinion on this subject in treating of rent, and have now only further to add, that rent is a creation of value, as I understand that word, but not a creation of wealth.
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Creation Expression Opinion Subject Understand Wealth
If English money was of the same value then as before, Hamburgh money must have risen in value. But where is the proof of this?
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Evidence Money Rise Value
Profits might also increase, because improvements might take place in agriculture, or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment the produce with the same cost of production.
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Agriculture Husband Improvement Profit
To alter the money value of commodities, by altering the value of money, and yet to raise the same money amount by taxes, is then undoubtedly to increase the burthens of society.
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Commodity Doubt Increase Money Value

Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold, has its natural and its market price.

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