| Adam Smith - Economics - 1809 - 372 pages
...Equal quantities of labour, at all times and places, may be said to be of equal value to the labourer. In his ordinary state of health, strength, and spirits...price which he pays must always be the same, whatever may be the quantity of goods which he receives in return for it. Of these, indeed, it may sometimes... | |
| Alexander Mac-Donnell - Free trade - 1826 - 540 pages
...quantities of labour, at all times and places, may be said to be of equal value to the labourers. In the ordinary state of health, strength, and spirits ;...price which he pays must always be the same, whatever may be the quantity of goods which he receives in return for it. Of these indeed it may sometimes purchase... | |
| Jean Baptiste Say - Economics - 1827 - 522 pages
...Equal quantities of labour, at all times and places, may be said to be of equal value to the labourer. In his ordinary state of health, strength, and spirits,...price, which he pays, must always be the same, whatever may be the quantity of goods which he receives in return for it. Of them, indeed, it may sometimes... | |
| Jean Baptiste Say - Economics - 1827 - 522 pages
...Equal quantities of labour, at all times and places, may be said to be of equal value to the labourer. In his ordinary state of health, strength, and spirits,...dexterity, he must always lay down the same portion of hisease, his liberty, and his happiness. The price, which he pays, must always be the same, whatever... | |
| Thomas Robert Malthus - 1827 - 324 pages
...in different countries, it is not really true, as stated by him, that the labourer in working " lays down the same portion of his ease, his liberty, and his happiness."* There is the best reason to believe that the labourer in India, and in many other countries, neither... | |
| Thomas Robert Malthus - Classical school of economics - 1827 - 322 pages
...even when it is acknowledged, that the labourer at different times and in different countries does not always lay down the same portion of his ease, his liberty, and happiness, the quality of labour, as a measure of value, is not essentially impaired ; and it appears... | |
| Samuel Read - Economics - 1829 - 440 pages
...labour," says he again, " at all times and places, may be said to be of equal value to the labourer. In his ordinary state of health, strength, and spirits,...price which he pays must always be the same, whatever may be the quantity of goods which he receives in return for it. Of these, indeed, it may sometimes... | |
| Jean Baptiste Say - Economics - 1832 - 530 pages
...Equal quantities of labour, at all times and places, may be said to be of equal value to the labourer. In his ordinary state of health, strength, and spirits,...dexterity, he must always lay down the same portion of his case, his liberty, and his happiness. The price, which he pays, must always be the same, whatever may... | |
| Jean Baptiste Say - Economics - 1836 - 508 pages
..."Equal quantities of labour, at all times and places, may be said to be of equal value to the labourer. In his ordinary state of health, strength, and spirits,...ease, his liberty, and his happiness. The price, which ne pays, must always be the same, whatever may be the quantity of goods which he receives in return... | |
| Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1847 - 558 pages
...Dr. Smith says below, that labor always remains of the same value, because it costs the laborer, when "in his ordinary state of health, strength, and spirits,...in the ordinary degree of his skill and dexterity," "the same portion of his ease, his liberty, and his happiness." (p. 15.) But this is not the exchangeable... | |
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