 | Adam Smith - 1789 - 526 pągines
...to contain the value of an equal quantity. Labour was the firft price, .the original purchafe- money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by filver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchafed ; and its value,to... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1811 - 452 pągines
...labour, which we exchange for what is supposed at the time to contain the value of an equal quantity. Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. II; was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1812
...to contain the value of an equal quantity. Labour was the firft price, the original purchafe-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by filver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchafed ; and its value, to... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1812 - 520 pągines
...firft price, the original purchafe-money that was pakl for all things. It was not by gold or by filver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchafed; and its value, to thofe who poffefs it, and who want to exchange it for fome new productions,... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1812 - 530 pągines
...firft price, the original purchafermoney that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by filver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchafed; 'and its value, to thofe who poflefs it, and who want to exchange it for fome new productions,... | |
 | 1816 - 692 pągines
...labour which we exchange for what js supposed at the time to contain the value of an equal quantity. Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money...that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or bysilver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was original!? purchased; and its value,... | |
 | 1856 - 838 pągines
...commonwealth. "Labour," says Adam Smith, " was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid tar all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labow, that all the Trt/alrh of the world was originally purchased." And, as that clearsighted writer... | |
 | David Ricardo - 1821 - 560 pągines
...is the toil and trouble which it can save to himself, and which it can impose upon other people." " Labour was the first price — the original purchase-money that was paid for all things." Again, " in that early and rude state of society, which precedes both the accumulation of stock and... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1822 - 522 pągines
...labour which we exchange for what is supposed at the time to contain the value of an equal quantity. Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money...silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the worjd was originally purchased ; and its value, to those who possess it, and who want to exchange it... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1824 - 144 pągines
...course to show that labour is the only source of wealth — to prove, in the words of Dr Smith, that " it was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that...the wealth of the world was originally purchased."* This fundamental principle once established, it necessarily follows, that the great practical problem... | |
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Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money, that was paid for all things. 
