Price of Corn and Wages of Labour, with Observations Upon Dr. Smith's, Mr. Ricardo's, and Mr. Malthus's Doctrines Upon Those Subjects: And an Attempt at an Exposition of the Causes of the Fluctuation of the Price of Corn During the Last Thirty YearsJ. Hatchard and son, 1826 - 150 頁 |
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abundance actual price affects the price agricultural alteration amount of wages bread capital ex cause commodity considerable consumption cost of production course creased crop cultivation currency deficient demand and supply demand for corn demand for labour depreciation depression diminished doubt duce duction effect employed employment expense fact fluctuations former greater harvest high prices improved inferior soils JOHN HATCHARD Lady Day land larger less low price Malthus mand Michaelmas mode natural price nearly necessaries observed period population price of corn price of labour Price of Wheat profit proportion proposition purchase quantity of labour rate of wages raw produce real wages reasoning regulated remunerating price rent revenue Ricardo rise of price rise or fall says Smith supply and demand supposed term demand tillage tion usual value of money wages of labour wants and means Wheat per Quarter whilst whole WILLIAM HUSKISSON yearly average
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第 63 頁 - Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold, and which may be increased or diminished in quantity, has its natural and its market price. The natural price of labour is that price which is necessary to enable the labourers, one with another, to subsist and perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.
第 76 頁 - Capital is that part of the wealth of a country which is employed in production, and consists of food, clothing, tools, raw materials, machinery, etc., necessary to give effect to labour.
第 74 頁 - The demand for those who live by wages, it is evident, cannot increase but in proportion to the increase of the funds which are destined for the payment of wages.
第 60 頁 - The opinion that the price of commodities depends solely on the proportion of supply to demand, or demand to supply, has become almost an axiom in political economy, and has been the source of much error in that science.
第 75 頁 - The demand for those who live by wages, therefore, necessarily increases with the increase of the revenue and stock of every country, and cannot possibly increase without it.
第 75 頁 - Notwithstanding the tendency of wages to conform to their natural rate, their market rate may, in an improving society, for an indefinite period, be constantly above it...
第 18 頁 - The market price of every particular commodity is regulated by the proportion between the quantity which is actually brought to market, and the demand of those who are willing to pay the natural price of the commodity...
第 119 頁 - Accordingly we find, that, in every kingdom, into which money begins to flow in greater abundance than formerly, every thing takes a new face : labour and industry gain life; the merchant becomes more enterprising, the manufacturer more diligent and skilful, and even the farmer follows his plough with greater alacrity and attention.
第 19 頁 - On the influence of demand and supply on prices*, observes, that "the demand for a commodity cannot be said to increase, if no additional quantity of it be purchased or consumed.
第 150 頁 - The BANK of ENGLAND DEFENDED, or the principal Cause of the high Prices demonstrated, by an Inquiry into the Origin of the present System of Coinage; also, by an Examination of certain Opinions in regard to a Metallic Currency, the Foreign Exchanges, and Effects of our Paper Currency ; with Suggestions for forming a more accurate Monetary System.