If The Demand For Home Commodities Should

Possessing Utility, Commodities Derive Their Exchangeable Value From Two Sources: From Their Scarcity, And From The Quantity Of Labour Required To Obtain Them.

It Appears To Me That One Great Cause Of Our Difference In Opinion On Subjects Which We Often Discuss Is That You Have Always In Mind The Immediate And Temporary Effects Of Particular Changes, Whereas I Put These Effects Quite Aside, And Fix My Whole Attention On The Long-term Effects That Will Result From Them.

A Bounty On The Exportation Of Corn Tends To Lower Its Price To The Foreign Consumer, But It Has No Permanent Effect On Its Price In The Home Market.

To Alter The Money Value Of Commodities, By Altering The Value Of Money, And Yet To Raise The Same Money Amount By Taxes, Is Then Undoubtedly To Increase The Burthens Of Society.

I Have Endeavoured To Show That The Ability To Pay Taxes Depends, Not On The Gross Money Value Of The Mass Of Commodities, Nor On The Net Money Value Of The Revenue Of Capitalists And Landlords, But On The Money Value Of Each Man's Revenue Compared To The Money Value Of The Commodities Which He Usually Consumes.