For price is everywhere regulated by the return obtained by this last portion of capital, for which no rent whatever is paid.
DAVID RICARDO
DAVID RICARDO
David Ricardo on capital
David Ricardo55 quotes“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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The wheat bought by a farmer to sow is comparatively a fixed capital to the wheat purchased by a baker to make into loaves.
David RicardoDavid Ricardo The price of corn will naturally rise with the difficulty of producing the last portions of it.
David RicardoDavid 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.
David RicardoDavid Ricardo 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.
David RicardoDavid Ricardo Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold, has its natural and its market price.
David RicardoDavid Ricardo 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.
David RicardoDavid Ricardo The exchangeable value of all commodities rises as the difficulties of their production increase.
David RicardoDavid Ricardo Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power.
David RicardoDavid Ricardo 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.
David RicardoDavid Ricardo 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.
David RicardoDavid Ricardo Taxation under every form presents but a choice of evils.
David RicardoDavid Ricardo 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.
David RicardoDavid Ricardo 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 RicardoDavid Ricardo If a tax on malt would raise the price of beer, a tax on bread must raise the price of bread.
David RicardoDavid Ricardo The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.
David RicardoDavid Ricardo The interest of the landlord is always opposed to the interests of every other class in the community.
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