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

David 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.
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Current exchange Money Prevent Variation
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
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
If a commodity were in no way useful, – in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, – it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.
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Commodity Contribute exchange Necessary Quantity Scarce Way
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
Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold, has its natural and its market price.
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Market Natural Price Purchase Sold Value
The demand for money is regulated entirely by its value, and its value by its quantity.
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Demand Quantity Value
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
Nothing contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits.
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Contribute Country Happiness Prosperity
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.
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Commodity Enjoyment Increase Trade Value
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
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
A rise of wages from this cause will, indeed, be invariably accompanied by a rise in the price of commodities; but in such cases, it will be found that labour and all commodities have not varied in regard to each other, and that the variation has been confined to money.
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Money Reason Rise Wage Willing
Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.
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Material Money Tools Work
Profits are not made by differential cleverness, but by differential stupidity.
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Clever Different Profit Stupidity
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

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

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