But it is clear that the price of labour has no necessary connection with the price of food, since it depends entirely on the supply of labourers compared with the demand.
DAVID RICARDONo extension of foreign trade will immediately increase the amount of value in a country, although it will very powerfully contribute to increase the mass of commodities and therefore the sum of enjoyments.
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If a tax on malt would raise the price of beer, a tax on bread must raise the price of bread.
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But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.
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Taxation under every form presents but a choice of evils.
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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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Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.
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The factors left out of the Ricardian equation are falling wages and idle capacity.
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No extension of foreign trade will immediately increase the amount of value in a country, although it will very powerfully contribute to increase the mass of commodities and therefore the sum of enjoyments.
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There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.
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Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold, has its natural and its market price.
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There can be no greater error then in supposing that capital is increased by non-consumption.
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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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If I discover a manure which will enable me to make a piece of land produce 20 per cent more corn, I may withdraw at least a portion of my capital from the most unproductive part of my farm.
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The interest of the landlord is always opposed to the interests of every other class in the community.
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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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The variation in the value of money, however great, makes no difference in the rate of profits.
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