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Страница 11 - EVERY man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life.
Страница 97 - The real value of all the different component parts of price, it must be observed, is measured by the quantity of labour which they can, each of them, purchase or command. Labour measures the value not only -of that part of price which resolves itself into labour, but of that which resolves itself into rent, and of that which resolves itself into profit.
Страница 171 - Labour, it must always be remembered, and not any particular commodity or set of commodities, is the real measure of the value both of silver and of all other commodities.
Страница 20 - Before I quit this subject, it may be proper to observe, that Adam Smith, and all the writers who have followed him, have, without one exception that I know of, maintained that a rise in the price of labour would be uniformly followed by a rise in the price of all commodities.
Страница 14 - Some people might think that if the value of a commodity is determined by the quantity of labour spent on it, the more idle and unskilful the labourer, the more valuable would his commodity be, because more time would be required in its production.
Страница 9 - There is one sort of labour," he says, " which adds to the value of the subject on which it is bestowed...
Страница 211 - Labour alone, therefore, never varying in its own value, is alone the ultimate and real standard by which the value of all commodities can at all times and places be estimated and compared.
Страница 223 - That portion of the stock of a country which is kept or employed with a view to profit in the production and distribution of wealth.
Страница 70 - The capital of a country consists of all that portion of the produce of industry existing in it, which can be made directly available either to the support of human existence, or to the facilitating of production.
Страница 222 - may be distinguished into two kinds, productive labour, and personal services, meaning by productive labour, that labour which is so directly productive of material wealth, as to be capable of estimation in the quantity or value of the object produced, which object is capable of being transferred without the presence of the producer; and...