David Ricardo

It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you…

— David Ricardo

To alter the money value of commodities, by altering the value of money, and yet to raise the same money amount by…

— David Ricardo

Like all other contracts, wages should be left to the fair and free competition of themarket, and should never be controlled by…

— David Ricardo

During the period of capital moving from one employment to another, the profits on that to which capital is flowing will be…

— David Ricardo

There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down....

— David Ricardo

If the quantity of labour realized in commodities, regulate their exchangeable value, every increase of the quantity of labour must augment the…

— David Ricardo

Whenever the current of money is forcibly stopped, and when money is prevented from settling at its just level, there are no…

— David Ricardo

The exchangeable value of all commodities rises as the difficulties of their production increase.

— David Ricardo

Whether a bank lent one million, ten million, or a hundred millions, they would not permanently alter the market rate of interest;…

— David Ricardo

If then the prosperity of the commercial classes, will most certainly lead to accumulation of capital, and the encouragement of productive industry;…

— David Ricardo

I have already expressed my opinion on this subject in treating of rent, and have now only further to add, that rent…

— David Ricardo

A BOUNTY on the exportation of corn tends to lower its price to the foreign consumer, but it has no permanent effect…

— David Ricardo

Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price.

— David Ricardo

If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification,…

— David Ricardo

As the revenue of the farmer is realized in raw produce, or in the value of raw produce, he is interested, as…

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I have endeavoured to show that the ability to pay taxes depends, not on the gross money value of the mass of…

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There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits.

— David Ricardo

The variation in the value of money, however great, makes no difference in the rate of profits.

— David Ricardo

The opinions that the price of commodities depends solely on the proportion of supply and demand, or demand to supply, has become…

— David Ricardo

No extension of foreign trade will immediately increase the amount of value in a country, although it will very powerfully contribute to…

— David Ricardo

Again two manufacturers may employ the same amount of fixed, and the same amount of circulating capital; but the durability of their…

— David Ricardo

It has therefore been justly observed that however honestly the coin of a country may conform to its standard, money made of…

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Rent is the portion of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the user of the original and indestructible powers…

— David Ricardo

In comparing therefore the value of the same commodity, at different periods of time, the consideration of the comparative skill and intensity…

— David Ricardo

Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of…

— David Ricardo