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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.

David Ricardo

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
Taxation under every form presents but a choice of evils.
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Choice Evil Option
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 exchangeable value of all commodities rises as the difficulties of their production increase.
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Commodity exchange Increase Production Value
The price of corn will naturally rise with the difficulty of producing the last portions of it.
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Natural Portion Price
Profits are not made by differential cleverness, but by differential stupidity.
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Clever Different Profit Stupidity
A BOUNTY on the exportation of corn tends to lower its price to the foreign consumer, but it has no permanent effect on its price in the home market.
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Consumer Export Foreign Home Marketing Permanent Price
Called an inquiry into the laws which determine the division of the produce.
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Determination Division Law Production
The interest of the landlord is always opposed to the interests of every other class in the community.
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Class Community Interest
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
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
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
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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Belong Ordinary Production Profit Rate Togetherness Value
Nothing contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits.
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Contribute Country Happiness Prosperity

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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