Labour Quote by Alfred Marshall

“But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.” quote by Alfred Marshall — Download Open image

“But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.”

Alfred Marshall

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I admit that these terms and the diagrams connected with them repel some readers, and fill others with the vain imagination that they have mastered difficult economics problems, when really they have done little more than learn the language in which parts of those problems can be expressed, and the machinery by which they can be handled. When the actual…

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“(1) Use mathematics as shorthand language, rather than as an engine of inquiry. (2) Keep to them till you have done. (3) Translate into…

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The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power…

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Nature's action is complex: and nothing is gained in the long run by pretending that it is simple, and trying to describe it in…

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All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as…

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Knowledge is our most powerful engine of production.

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And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than…

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In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.

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The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the…

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Though a simple book can be written on selected topics, the central doctrines of economics are not simple and cannot be made so.

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The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the…

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Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree.

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