For price is everywhere regulated by the return obtained by this last portion of capital, for which no rent whatever is paid.
DAVID RICARDOThe demand for money is regulated entirely by its value, and its value by its quantity.
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Called an inquiry into the laws which determine the division of the produce.
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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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Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.
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Every transaction in commerce is an independent transaction.
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The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.
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If the demand for home commodities should be diminished, because of the fall of rent on the part of the landlords, it will be increased in a far greater degree by the increased opulence of the commercial classes.
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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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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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Utility then is not the measure of exchangeable value, although it is absolutely essential to it.
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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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If English money was of the same value then as before, Hamburgh money must have risen in value. But where is the proof of this?
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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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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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The price of corn will naturally rise with the difficulty of producing the last portions of it.
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Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold, has its natural and its market price.
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