List of David Ricardo Quotes

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David Ricardo
Total Quotes 65
During the period of capital moving from one employment to another, the profits on that to which capital is flowing will be relatively high, but will continue so no longer than till the requisite capital is obtained.
Moving Moved On Employment
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.
Home Corn Consumers
But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.
Wages Commodity Machinery
If the demand for home commodities should be diminished, because of the fall of rent on the part of the landlords, it will be increased in a far greater degree by the increased opulence of the commercial classes.
Fall Home Class
I have already expressed my opinion on this subject in treating of rent, and have now only further to add, that rent is a creation of value, as i understand that word, but not a creation of wealth.
Add Opinion Wealth
The variation in the value of money, however great, makes no difference in the rate of profits.
Differences Variation Profit
If english money was of the same value then as before, hamburgh money must have risen in value. but where is the proof of this?
Proof Risen Ifs
Again two manufacturers may employ the same amount of fixed, and the same amount of circulating capital; but the durability of their fixed capitals may be very unequal.
Two May Durability
The factors left out of the ricardian equation are falling wages and idle capacity.
Fall Wages Capacity
As the revenue of the farmer is realized in raw produce, or in the value of raw produce, he is interested, as well as the landlord, in its high exchangeable value, but a low price of produce may be compensated to him by a great additional quantity.
May Produce Lows
Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent.
Land Agriculture Together
Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them.
Gold Arbitrary Scarcity
  • Born: April 18, 1772
  • Died: September 11, 1823
  • Occupation: Economist
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