| Michel Foucault - 2002 - 452 страници
...greater the number of units required, the more costly the products will be. 'Equal quantities of labour, at all times and places, may be said to be of equal value to the labourer'.5 And yet one could say that this unit is not a fixed one, since to produce the self-same... | |
| James Bowen, Margarita Bowen - 2011 - 746 страници
...disutility per unit of common labor is constant for everyone":3 Equal quantities of labour, at all rimes and places, may be said to be of equal value to the labourer. 1n his ordinary state of health, strengths and spirits; in the ordinary degree of his skill and dexterity,... | |
| Thomas A. Boylan, Tadhg Foley - 2003 - 324 страници
...acquiring it." — Wealth of Nations, Bk I., Ch. V. Further on, speaking of the labourer, he observes — "In his ordinary state of health, strength, and spirits,...portion of his ease, his liberty, and his happiness." Had Smith recognised the existence of Abstinence, and been a little more careful to employ in a uniform... | |
| Gordon Bigelow - 2003 - 229 страници
...that "the disutility per unit of common labor is constant for everyone":3 Equal quantities of labour, at all times and places, may be said to be of equal...to the labourer. In his ordinary state of health, strengths and spirits; in the ordinary degree of his skill and dexterity, he must always lay down the... | |
| William M. Dugger, Howard J. Sherman - 2003 - 328 страници
...theory of value. As Adam Smith states the case, labor is irksome and the laborer in exerting himself "must always lay down the same portion of his ease, his liberty, and his happiness.""8 In this sentence is evidence of an acceptance of hedonism. Labor is painful and is undertaken... | |
| Denis Patrick O'Brien - 2004 - 458 страници
...basis of this proposition is the idea that labor has a constant disutility; "equal quantities of labour at all times and places, may be said to be of equal value to the labourer."6 This real value is distinguished from what Smith calls the nominal value of labor, that... | |
| Glyn Lloyd-Hughes - 2005 - 412 страници
...dearer, sometimes of easier and sometimes of more difficult purchase. But equal quantities of labour, at all times and places, may be said to be of equal...portion of his ease, his liberty, and his happiness. Labour alone, therefore, never varying in its own value, is alone the ultimate and real standard by... | |
| Knud Haakonssen - 2006 - 790 страници
...quantity of labour which it can enable them to purchase or command. . . . Equal quantities of labour, at all times and places, may be said to be of equal value to the labourer', but he undercuts the apparent accuracy of his measure by adding: It is often difficult to ascertain... | |
| Adam Smith - 2007 - 597 страници
...value, can never be an accurate measure of the value of other commodities. Equal quantities of labour, at all times and places, may be said to be of equal...always be the same, whatever may be the quantity of the goods which he receives in return for it. Of these, indeed, it may sometimes purchase a greater... | |
| Stephen McCarthy, David Kehl - 2008 - 294 страници
...equality between the different labourers' own estimates of these quantities: Equal quantities of labour, at all times and places, may be said to be of equal value to the labourer. (H)e must always lay down the same portion of his ease, his liberty, and his happiness. The price which... | |
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