Among Quote by Rudolf Hiferding

Surplus-value and the rate of surplus-value are... the invisible essence to be investigated, whereas the rate of profit and hence the form of surplus-value…

— 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

“A variable cost changes, typically linearly, with the number of units sold.”

— Victor Cheng

In the market economy the price that is offered is counted upon to produce the result that is sought.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Four things have almost invariably followed the imposition of controls to keep prices below the level they would reach under supply and demand in…

— Thomas Sowell

The price decline is a result of having to pay debts. That drains income from the circular flow between production and consumption - that…

— Michael Hudson

Economists may not know much. But we know one thing very well: how to produce surpluses and shortages. Do you want a surplus? Have…

— Milton Friedman

We have never considered any costs as fixed. Therefore we first reduce the price to a point where we believe more sales will result.…

— Henry Ford

The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken…

— Edward Carpenter

“Since the mass of the employed living labour is continually on the decline as compared to the mass of materialised labour set in motion…

— Karl Marx

“The progressive tendency of the general rate of profit to fall is, therefore, just an expression peculiar to the capitalist mode of production of…

— Karl Marx

Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain.

— William Vickrey