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The value of a commodity, or the quantity of any other commodity for
which it will exchange, depends on the relative quantity of labour
which is necessary for its production, and not on the greater or less
compensation which is paid for that labour,
SECTION II.
Labour of different qualities differently rewarded. This no cause of
variation in the relative value of commodities,
SECTION III.
Not only the labour applied immediately to commodities affect their
value, but the labour also which is bestowed on the implements,
tools, and buildings with which such labour is assisted,
SECTION IV.
The principle that the quantity of labour bestowed on the production
of commodities regulates their relative value, considerably modified by
the employment of machinery and other fixed and durable capital,
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SECTION V.
The principle that value does not vary with the rise or fall of wages,
modified also by the unequal durability of capital, and by the unequal
rapidity with which it is returned to its employer,
SECTION VI.
On an invariable measure of value,
SECTION VII.
Different effects from the alteration in the value of money, the medium
in which Price is always expressed, or from the alteration in the
value of the commodities which money purchases,
ON RENT,
CHAPTER II.
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DOCTRINE OF ADAM SMITH CONCERNING THE RENT OF LAND,
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CHAPTER XXV.
ON COLONIAL TRADE,
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ON THE COMPARATIVE VALUE OF GOLD, CORN, AND LABOUR, IN RICH
AND POOR COUNTRIES,
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CHAPTER XXIX.
TAXES PAID BY THE PRODUCER,
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CHAPTER XXX.
OF THE INFLUENCE OF DEMAND AND SUPPLY ON PRICES,
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HIGH PRICE OF BULLION A PROOF OF THE DEPRE-
CIATION OF BANK NOTES,
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APPENDIX TO DITTO,
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REPLY TO MR BOSANQUET'S PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS
ON THE REPORT OF THE BULLION COMMITTEE,
CHAPTER I.
PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS-MR BOSANQUET'S OBJECTIONS TO THE
CONCLUSIONS OF THE BULLION COMMITTEE BRIEFLY STATED,
MR BOSANQUET'S ALLEGED FACTS, DRAWN FROM THE HISTORY OF THE
STATE OF EXCHANGE, CONSIDERED,
SECTION I.
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Exchange with Hamburgh,
Exchange with Paris,
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