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The proportions, too, in which the capital that is to support labour, and the capital that is invested in tools, machinery and buildings, may be variously combined.
David Ricardo -
Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.
David Ricardo
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The facility of obtaining food is beneficial in two ways to the owners of capital, it at the same time raises profits and increases the amount of consumable commodities.
David Ricardo -
There can be no greater error then in supposing that capital is increased by non-consumption.
David Ricardo -
Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods.
David Ricardo -
It is not by the absolute quantity of produce obtained by either class, that we can correctly judge of the rate of profit, rent, and wages, but by the quantity of labour required to obtain that produce.
David Ricardo -
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?
David Ricardo -
Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth which is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil.
David Ricardo
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The price of corn will naturally rise with the difficulty of producing the last portions of it,...
David Ricardo -
After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required, and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated.
David Ricardo