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... things , it may be as well to be familiar with the old forms under which they pre- sented themselves in other times , and with the false principles which they involved , inasmuch as we shall thereby be enabled to detect them more ...
... things , it may be as well to be familiar with the old forms under which they pre- sented themselves in other times , and with the false principles which they involved , inasmuch as we shall thereby be enabled to detect them more ...
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... things , because mankind have agreed so to employ them , and not because these metals have any natural value ... things by nature so valuable are worth so little gold ? And upon what does it depend that one thing is worth so much more ...
... things , because mankind have agreed so to employ them , and not because these metals have any natural value ... things by nature so valuable are worth so little gold ? And upon what does it depend that one thing is worth so much more ...
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... things , prices having risen on all hands : they could not agree , however , as to the cause of this , and ultimately refer the decision to the learn- ing of the doctor . The doctor , having traced the origin of the rise of prices to ...
... things , prices having risen on all hands : they could not agree , however , as to the cause of this , and ultimately refer the decision to the learn- ing of the doctor . The doctor , having traced the origin of the rise of prices to ...
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... things be rare , and that the fairest things , as they are the hardest to be ob- tained , so they be most to be esteemed . If a glass , as Erasmus saith well , were as rare as silver , it would be as dear as silver , and not without ...
... things be rare , and that the fairest things , as they are the hardest to be ob- tained , so they be most to be esteemed . If a glass , as Erasmus saith well , were as rare as silver , it would be as dear as silver , and not without ...
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... thing and its value . are spoken of as more useful than gold and silver , but gold and silver as of greater value . The value , as distinguished from the utility , is made to depend upon the rarity of a thing , in other words , upon its ...
... thing and its value . are spoken of as more useful than gold and silver , but gold and silver as of greater value . The value , as distinguished from the utility , is made to depend upon the rarity of a thing , in other words , upon its ...
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Página 171 - THERE IS ONE SORT of labour which adds to the value of the subject upon which it is bestowed: there is another which has no such effect.
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Página 172 - THE annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations.
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Página 167 - The value of any commodity, therefore, to the person who possesses it, and who means not to use or consume it himself, but to exchange it for other commodities, is equal to the quantity of labour which it enables him to purchase or command. Labour, therefore, is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities.
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