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.
DAVID RICARDOA 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.
More David Ricardo Quotes
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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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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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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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There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits.
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The interest of the landlord is always opposed to the interests of every other class in the community.
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I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind.
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The factors left out of the Ricardian equation are falling wages and idle capacity.
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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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There can be no greater error then in supposing that capital is increased by non-consumption.
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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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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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Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power.
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The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.
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The demand for money is regulated entirely by its value, and its value by its quantity.
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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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