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Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent.

David Ricardo

For price is everywhere regulated by the return obtained by this last portion of capital, for which no rent whatever is paid.
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Capital Pay Portion Price
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
The factors left out of the Ricardian equation are falling wages and idle capacity.
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Capacity Equation Factor
If a commodity were in no way useful, – in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, – it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.
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Commodity Contribute exchange Necessary Quantity Scarce Way
Rent is the portion of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the user of the original and indestructible powers of the soil
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Earth Original Paid Rent Soil
Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power.
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Abuse Bank Power State
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
Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold, has its natural and its market price.
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Market Natural Price Purchase Sold Value
Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.
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Material Money Tools Work
Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods.
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Compare exchange Gold Goodness Greatness
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
The demand for money is regulated entirely by its value, and its value by its quantity.
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Demand Quantity Value
The wheat bought by a farmer to sow is comparatively a fixed capital to the wheat purchased by a baker to make into loaves.
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Capital Farmer Purchase
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
There can be no greater error then in supposing that capital is increased by non-consumption.
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Consumption Errors Greatness Increase
Utility then is not the measure of exchangeable value, although it is absolutely essential to it.
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Essential exchange Measurement Value

Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent.

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Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent.

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