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Called an inquiry into the laws which determine the division of the produce.

David 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.
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Clear Compare Connection Demand Labor Necessary Price
Profits might also increase, because improvements might take place in agriculture, or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment the produce with the same cost of production.
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Agriculture Husband Improvement Profit
The factors left out of the Ricardian equation are falling wages and idle capacity.
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Capacity Equation Factor
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
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
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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Capital Equality Fix Man
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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Nation Possession Quantity Wasted Time
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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Money Production Profit Real Rise Value
It is here we come to the heart of the matter. The economic principle of comparative advantage’, ‘a country may, in return for manufactured commodities, import corn even if it can be grown with less labour than in the country from which it is imported.
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Advantage Economics Growth Heart Import Manufacture Principle
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
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
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
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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Capital Employment Flow Move Relative
Every transaction in commerce is an independent transaction.
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Commerce Independent Transaction
Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.
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Material Money Tools Work
Utility then is not the measure of exchangeable value, although it is absolutely essential to it.
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Essential exchange Measurement Value

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