Called an inquiry into the laws which determine the division of the produce.
DAVID RICARDO
Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.
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Called an inquiry into the laws which determine the division of the produce.
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Taxation under every form presents but a choice of evils.
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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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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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If the demand for home commodities should be diminished, because of the fall of rent on the part of the landlords, it will be increased in a far greater degree by the increased opulence of the commercial classes.
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Again two manufacturers may employ the same amount of fixed, and the same amount of circulating capital; but the durability of their fixed capitals may be very unequal.
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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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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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During the period of capital moving from one employment to another, the profits on that to which capital is flowing will be relatively high, but will continue so no longer than till the requisite capital is obtained.
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There can be no greater error then in supposing that capital is increased by non-consumption.
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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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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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But a tax on luxuries would no other effect than to raise their price. It would fall wholly on the consumer, and could neither increase wages nor lower profits.
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The price of corn will naturally rise with the difficulty of producing the last portions of it.
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Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power.
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