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

David Ricardo

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
Utility then is not the measure of exchangeable value, although it is absolutely essential to it.
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Essential exchange Measurement Value
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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Consume Effect Fall Luxury Price Profit Tax
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
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.
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Current exchange Money Prevent Variation
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.
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Greatness Honesty Mindset Powerful Thinking
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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Discover Farm Land Myself Pieces Productive
There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits.
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Fall Labour Profit Rise 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
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 is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.
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Profit Wage Way Yourself
The price of corn will naturally rise with the difficulty of producing the last portions of it.
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Natural Portion 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
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
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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Beer Food Price Raise Tax
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

Money Production Profit Real Rise Value

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

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