 | Adam Smith - 1809 - 372 lehte
...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. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased... | |
 | 1816 - 692 lehte
...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;... | |
 | David Ricardo - 1821 - 560 lehte
...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... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1825 - 446 lehte
...their bad qualities, and made them satisfy his wants, and minister to his comforts and enjoyments. " Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased.... | |
 | Jean Baptiste Say - 1827 - 522 lehte
...general, is determined by the mutual • Wealth nf Nation*, book ic 5. 0n this point, Smith observes, that "labour was the first price, the original purchase-money, that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased."... | |
 | Jean Baptiste Say - 1827 - 522 lehte
...general, is determined by the mutual • Wealth of Nation*, book ic 5. On this point, Smith observes, that "labour was the first price, the original purchase-money, that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased."... | |
 | Samuel Read - 1829 - 440 lehte
...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^ It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased... | |
 | Jean Baptiste Say - 1832 - 530 lehte
...must be content to • Wealth of Nations, book ic 5. On this point, Smith observes, Jhnt " labour wan the first price, the original purchase-money, that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased."... | |
 | John Wade - 1833 - 674 lehte
...no man's labour, and no man can appropriate them to himself, they are of no value in the market. " Labour was the first price, the original purchasemoney that was paid for all things." When all things lay in common, alike the gift of nature to all men, who would have the best right to... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1833 - 892 lehte
...account. It is a settled principle in political economy, that human industry produces wealth. " Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money, that was paid for all things." — " It is to labor, and to labor only, that man owes every thing, possessed of exchangeable value.... | |
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Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased... 
