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

David Ricardo

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
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
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
Rent is the portion of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the user of the original and indestructible powers of the soil
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Earth Original Paid Rent Soil
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
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
Like all other contracts, wages should be left to the fair and free competition of themarket, and should never be controlled by the interference of the legislature.
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Competition Contract Control Freedom Legislature Wage
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
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
The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.
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Farmer Live Manufacture Profit Wage
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
Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcity, and from the quantity of labour required to obtain them.
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Commodity Possession Require Source Value
Called an inquiry into the laws which determine the division of the produce.
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Determination Division Law Production
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

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