On The Principles of Political Economy, and TaxationRicardo, David
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On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation
Ricardo, David
Economics
_Capital_, nature of, effects of the accumulation of, on the relative
value of commodities investigated, 16.
Effects of, in a savage or infant state of society, 17, 18, 23, 24.
And in a more advanced state of society, 19-21.
The relative values of _circulating_ and _fixed_ capitals
considered, 22, 23.
The distinction between circulating and fixed capitals difficult
to be strictly defined, 186, 187.
Considerations on the different modes of employing it, 83-88.
The increase of capital in quantity and value, productive of a
rise in the natural price of wages, 94, 95.
Increase of capital in quantity only, productive of a rise in
the market price of wages, _ibid._
Effects of the accumulation of capital on profits and interest,
398-416.
The sole effect of bounties on exportation, upon capital, is to
divert a portion of it to an employment which it would not
naturally seek, 438. Remarks on such effect, 439-445.
The profits, made by the employment of capital, regulate the rate
of interest for money, 512, 513.
_Carrying trade_, observations on, 407.
_Circulation_ of money can never overflow, and why, 500, 501.
Circulation of Paper, see _Paper Currency_.
_Colonial Trade_, observations on, 476, 477.
Proofs, that trade with a colony may be so regulated as to be less
beneficial to the colony, and more beneficial to the mother
country, than a perfectly free trade, 477-486.
Benefits of a colonial trade, 487-490.
_Commodities_, gold and silver an insufficient medium for determining
the varying value of, 7, 8.
Corn, an inadequate standard of the value of, 9-12.
The effects of an accumulation of capital on the relative value of
commodities, considered, 16-42.
Effects of a rise in wages on their value, 43, 44, and of the
payment of rent, 45, 46.
Their exchangeable value regulated by the greater quantity of labour
bestowed on their production by those who labour under the most
unfavourable circumstances, 59, 60.
The prices of commodities not necessarily increased by a rise in the
price of labour, 109, 110.
The cost of production regulates the price of commodities, 542, 567,
568, 572, 573.
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