Needs Quote by David Ricardo

“The values of commodities are directly as the times of labour employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the…

— 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

The values of commodities are directly as the times of labor employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the…

— Karl Marx

The value of any commodity, therefore, to the person who possesses it, and who means not to use or consume it himself, but to…

— Adam Smith

But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly…

— David Ricardo

Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcity, and from the quantity of labour required to obtain them.

— David Ricardo

It is notorious that, whenever the demand for labor is much greater than the supply, or the wages of labor are much higher than…

— Edmund Ruffin

“The value is never greater than when it´s born of necessity”

— Diego de Saavedra Fajardo

The greater the value of the object desired, the greater the effort required in its attainment.

— Rudger Clawson

The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour.

— William Stanley Jevons

“within the capitalist system all methods for raising the social productiveness of labour are brought about at the cost of the individual labourer; all…

— Karl Marx

“The less the skill and exertion of strength implied in manual labour, in other words, the more modern industry becomes developed, the more is…

— Karl Marx