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Every transaction in commerce is an independent transaction.

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There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.

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Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.

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There can be no rise in the value of labour
without a fall of profits.

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The demand for money is regulated entirely by its value, and its value by its quantity.

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Nothing contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits.

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The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.

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If a tax on malt would raise the price of beer, a tax on bread must raise the price of bread.

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There can be no greater error then in supposing that capital is increased by non-consumption.

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Sufficiently rich to satisfy all my desires and the reasonable desires of all those about me.

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The exchangeable value of all commodities rises as the difficulties of their production increase.

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Utility then is not the measure of exchangeable value, although it is absolutely essential to it.

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The variation in the value of money, however great, makes no difference in the rate of profits;...

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The price of corn will naturally rise with the difficulty of producing the last portions of it,...

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The interest of the landlord is always opposed to the interests of every other class in the community.

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It has been my endeavour to show in this work that a fall of wages would have no other effect than to raise profits.

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Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods.

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The wheat bought by a farmer to sow is comparatively a fixed capital to the wheat purchased by a baker to make into loaves.

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For price is everywhere regulated by the return obtained by this last portion of capital, for which no rent whatever is paid.

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If English money was of the same value then as before, Hamburgh money must have risen in value. But where is the proof of this?

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Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth which is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil.

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A BOUNTY on the exportation of corn tends to lower its price to the foreign consumer, but it has no permanent effect on its price in the home market.

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Neither machines, nor the commodities made by them, rise in real value, but all commodities made by machines fall, and fall in proportion to their durability.

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Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcity, and from the quantity of labour required to obtain them.

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But a tax on luxuries would no other effect than to raise their price. It would fall wholly on the consumer, and could neither increase wages nor lower profits.

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A rise in wages, from an alteration in the value of money, produces a general effect on price, and for that reason it produces no real effect whatever on profits.

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Like all other contracts, wages should be left to the fair and free competition of themarket, and should never be controlled by the interference of the legislature.

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Again two manufacturers may employ the same amount of fixed, and the same amount of circulating capital; but the durability of their fixed capitals may be very unequal.

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But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.

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But it is clear that the price of labour has no necessary connection with the price of food, since it depends entirely on the supply of labourers compared with the demand.

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