| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce - 1905 - 1150 páginas
...and amusements of human life. * • • The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it. What everything is really worth to the man who has acquired it and who wants to dispose of it or exchange... | |
| William Bell Robertson - 1905 - 272 páginas
...of value and wages. "The real price of everything," says Adam Smith, "what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it." Now the amount of toil and trouble that a man will undergo to acquire anything will be determined by... | |
| Charles John Smith - 1904 - 800 páginas
...to be worth) is what it might to fetch. "The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble •)l acquiring it." — ADAH SMITH. ' Already 1 am worn with cares and age, And just abandoning the... | |
| 1817 - 698 páginas
...expended on each. " The real price of every thing," says Dr Smith, " what every thing really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and...worth to the man who has acquired it, and who wants to dispose of it, or exchange it for something else, is the toil and trouble which it can save to himself,... | |
| John Spargo - 1906 - 292 páginas
...Adam Smith, in a well-known passage, says: "The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it. What everything is really worth to the man who has acquired it, and who wants to dispose of it or exchange... | |
| Herbert Joseph Davenport - 1907 - 618 páginas
...to the primary, the real -value concept: "The real price of everything, what everything really costs the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it" — labor cost of some sort: but "what everything is really worth to the man who has acquired it is... | |
| Albion W. Small - 1907 - 290 páginas
...theory of exchanges. Thus he says: I3 I f The real price of everything, what everything really II costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and IV trouble of acquiring it. What everything is really worth \/ to the man who has acquired it, and... | |
| 1909 - 898 páginas
...Applying the rule laid down by Adam Smith, that " the real price of everything, what everything costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it," the foregoing means that the average purchaser of railway transportation now obtains passenger service... | |
| Lewis Henry Haney - 1911 - 598 páginas
...exchange unrelated and apart. " The real price of everything," he says, " what every thing really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it." 3 Accordingly a cost theory is the 1 Not marginal utility, but general capacity to satisfy wants regardless... | |
| Henry Clay Vedder - 1912 - 560 páginas
...his "Wealth of Nations," and much good may the honor do him. He said : "What everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it. What everything is really worth to the man who has acquired it and who wants to dispose of it or exchange... | |
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