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Labour, upon whichever of those operations it be bestowed, is productive, because it concurs in the creation of a product. Thus the labour of the philosopher, whether experimental or literary, is productive; the labour of the adventurer or master-manufacturer is productive, although he perform no actual manual work; the labour of every operative workman is productive, from the common day-labourer in agriculture, to the pilot that governs the motion of a ship.

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The celebrated Adam Smith was the first to point out the immense increase of production, and the superior perfection of products referable to this division of labour.

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The occupation of the stock-jobber yields no new or useful product; consequently having no product of his own to give in exchange, he has no revenue to subsist upon, but what he contrives to make out of the unskilfulness or ill-fortune of gamesters like himself.

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The most effectual encouragement to population is, the activity of industry, and the consequent multiplication of the national products.

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A man who applies his labour to the investing of objects with value by the creation of utility of some sort, can not expect such a value to be appreciated and paid for, unless where other men have the means of purchasing it. Now, of what do these means consist? Of other values of other products, likewise the fruits of industry, capital, and land. Which leads us to a conclusion that may at first appear paradoxical, namely, that it is production which opens a demand for products.

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It is production which opens a demand for products.... A product is no sooner created, than it, from that instant, affords a market for other products to the full extent of its own value.

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Regulation is useful and proper, when aimed at the prevention of fraud or contrivance, manifestly injurious to other kinds of production, or to the public safety, and not at prescribing the nature of the products and the methods of fabrication.

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One product is always ultimately bought with another, even when paid for in the first instance with money.

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When a tree, a natural product, is felled, is society put into possession of no greater produce than that of the mere labour of the woodman?

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