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The variation in the value of money, however great, makes no difference in the rate of profits.

David Ricardo

As the revenue of the farmer is realized in raw produce, or in the value of raw produce, he is interested, as well as the landlord, in its high exchangeable value, but a low price of produce may be compensated to him by a great additional quantity.
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Additional exchange Farmer Production Quantity Revenue Value
The exchangeable value of all commodities rises as the difficulties of their production increase.
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Commodity exchange Increase Production Value
I have already expressed my opinion on this subject in treating of rent, and have now only further to add, that rent is a creation of value, as I understand that word, but not a creation of wealth.
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Creation Expression Opinion Subject Understand Wealth
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
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
Gold and silver are no doubt subject to fluctuations, from the discovery of new and more abundant mines; but such discoveries are rare, and their effects, though powerful, are limited to periods of comparatively short duration.
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Discover Doubt Fluctuation Gold Limitation Powerful Rare Silver Subject
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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Capital Class Commercial Encouragement Prosperity
There can be no greater error then in supposing that capital is increased by non-consumption.
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Consumption Errors Greatness Increase
Neither machines, nor the commodities made by them, rise in real value, but all commodities made by machines fall, and fall in proportion to their durability.
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Commodity Fall Machine Reality Value
The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.
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Farmer Live Manufacture Profit Wage
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
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
Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.
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Material Money Tools Work
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
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 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

The variation in the value of money, however great, makes no difference in the rate of profits.

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