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There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.

David Ricardo

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
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
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
Called an inquiry into the laws which determine the division of the produce.
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Determination Division Law Production
The price of corn will naturally rise with the difficulty of producing the last portions of it.
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Natural Portion Price
Utility then is not the measure of exchangeable value, although it is absolutely essential to it.
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Essential exchange Measurement Value
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
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 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
Every transaction in commerce is an independent transaction.
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Commerce Independent Transaction
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
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
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
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
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 demand for money is regulated entirely by its value, and its value by its quantity.
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Demand Quantity Value

There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.

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