 Labour was the first price, the original purchasemoney 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...  A Practical Treatise on Labor - Page 240by Hendrick Bradley Wright - 1871 - 405 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1809 - 372 pages
...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 it for some new productions, is precisely equal ta the quantity of labour which it can enable them to purchase or command.... | |
 | Charles Ganilh - Economics - 1812 - 520 pages
...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."... | |
 | William Shepherd, Jeremiah Joyce, Lant Carpenter - Education - 1815 - 598 pages
...their scarcity, and dimimshes with their plenty. Dr. Smith observes, " that the value of any commodity to those who possess it, and who want to exchange...production, is precisely equal to the quantity of labour which it can enable them to purchase or command : •whence he infers, that labour is the real... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1816 - 674 pages
...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 it for some new productions, is precisely equal to the quantity of labour which it can enable them to purchase or command."*... | |
 | Samuel Read - Economics - 1829 - 444 pages
...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 it for some new productions, is precisely equal to the quantity of labour which it can enable them to purchase or command."*... | |
 | Periodicals - 1844 - 288 pages
...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 it for some new productions, is precisely equal to the quantity of labour which it can enable them to purchase or command.—... | |
 | Sir Travers Twiss - Economics - 1847 - 356 pages
...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 it for some new productions, is precisely equal to the quantity of labour, which it can enable them to purchase or... | |
 | Travers Twiss - Business & Economics - 1847 - 358 pages
...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 it for some new productions, is precisely equal 168 THE PKOFITS OF STOCE. to the quantity of labour, which it can enable... | |
 | John Gray - Economics - 1848 - 394 pages
...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 it for some new productions, is precisely equal to the quantity of labour which it can enable them to purchase or command.... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Economics - 1855 - 490 pages
...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 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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