"There is no way of keeping profits up……" — David Ricardo

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

— David Ricardo

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41 Quotes by David Ricardo

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If then the prosperity of the commercial classes, will most certainly lead to accumulation of capital, and the encouragement of…
It is here we come to the heart of the matter. The economic principle of comparative advantage', 'a country may,…
Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power.
By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour and they…
For price is everywhere regulated by the return obtained by this last portion of capital, for which no rent whatever…
Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of…
A rise of wages from this cause will, indeed, be invariably accompanied by a rise in the price of commodities;…
After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased,…
A rise in wages, from an alteration in the value of money, produces a general effect on price, and for…
The exchangeable value of all commodities rises as the difficulties of their production increase.
In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could…
During the period of capital moving from one employment to another, the profits on that to which capital is flowing…

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