If one fourth of the capital of a country were suddenly destroyed, or entirely transferred to a different part of the world, without any other cause occurring of a diminished demand for commodities, this scantiness of capital would certainly occasion great inconvenience to consumers, and great distress among the working classes; but it would be attended with great advantages to the remaining capitalists.


Book II, Chapter I, On The Progress of Wealth, Section X, p. 414 (See also: Karl Marx, Capital Volume I, Chapter 25, Section 4(e), p. 742. - Principles of Political Economy (Second Edition 1836)

Thomas Robert Malthus Quotes

If one fourth of the capital of a country were suddenly destroyed, or entirely transferred to a different part of the world, without any other cause...

If one fourth of the capital of a country were suddenly destroyed, or entirely transferred to a different part of the world, without any other cause...

If one fourth of the capital of a country were suddenly destroyed, or entirely transferred to a different part of the world, without any other cause...

If one fourth of the capital of a country were suddenly destroyed, or entirely transferred to a different part of the world, without any other cause...