Affect Quote by David Ricardo

A rise of wages from this cause will, indeed, be invariably accompanied by a rise in the price of commodities; but in such cases,…

— David Ricardo

Think how modern economics presents work. Only labour that contributes to growth counts.

— Guy Standing

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

— David Ricardo

Be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.

— Karl Marx

Labour is not a commodity.

— Sharan Burrow

In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.

— Karl Marx

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

— David Ricardo

An increase in the productivity of labour means nothing more than that the same capital creates the same value with less labour, or that…

— Karl Marx

If each year slightly less capital is invested in industry, the time will eventually come when the amount of equipment per laborer and, in…

— Sumner Slichter

“It is, perhaps, impossible to proportion exactly the price of labor to the profits it produces; and it will also be said, as an…

— Thomas Paine

If a rise in wages does not raise prices, a fall will not reduce them.

— Joan Robinson

“To maximise output, every organisation will strive to obtain its necessary raw materials, labour and machinery at the lowest possible cost and combine them…

— Alain de Botton