 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1789 - 526 pages
...its value,to thofe who poflefs it, and who want to exchange it for fome new productions, is precifely equal to the quantity of labour which it can enable them to purchafe or command. WEALTH, WEALTH, as Mr. Hobbes fays, is power. But c HAP, the perfon who either... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1809 - 372 pages
...by silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased ; and its value, to those who possess it, and who want to exchange it for some new productions, is precisely equal ta the quantity of labour which it can enable them to purchase or command.... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1811 - 452 pages
...purchased ; and its value, to those who possess it, and who want to exchange it for some new productions, is precisely equal to the quantity of labour which it can enable them to purchase or command. Wealth, as Mr. Hobbes says, is power. Bv (the person who either acquires, or succeeds to a great fortune,... | |
 | Charles Ganilh - Comparative economics - 1812 - 504 pages
...with that sagacity and profundity, which are the characteristics of his excellent mind. He states, that " the value of any commodity to those who possess it, and who want to exchange it for some new productions, is precisely equal to the quantity of labour which it can enable them to purchase or command."... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1812 - 520 pages
...value, to thofe who poffefs it, and who want to exchange it for fome new productions, is precifely equal to the quantity of labour which it can enable them to purchafe or command. Wealth, as Mr. Hobbes fays, is power. But c HA P. the perfon who either acquires,... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1812
...value, to thofe who poffefs it, and who want to exchange it for fome new productions, is precifely equal to the quantity of labour which it can enable them to purchafe or command. Wealth Wealth, as Mr. Hobbes fays, is power. But CHAP, the perfon who either acquires,... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1816 - 674 pages
...by silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased ; and its value, to those who possess it, and who want to exchange it for some new productions, is precisely equal to the quantity of labour which it can enable them to purchase or command."*... | |
 | English literature - 1816 - 692 pages
...those who possess it, and who want to exchange it for some new productions, is precisely equal to ibe quantity of labour which it can enable them to purchase or command."* In opposition to this doctrine, M. Storch argues in the following manner: — " Dans ce systeme, comme... | |
 | Samuel Read - Economics - 1829 - 440 pages
...purchased ; and its value, to those who possess it, and who want to exchange it for some new productions, is precisely equal to the quantity of labour which it can enable them to purchase or Command.1** " Equal quantities of labour," says he again, " at all times and places, may be said to... | |
 | Samuel Read - Economics - 1829 - 444 pages
...by silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased ; and its value, to those who possess it, and who want to exchange it for some new productions, is precisely equal to the quantity of labour which it can enable them to purchase or command."*... | |
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Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased ; and its value, to those who possess it, and who want to exchange... 
