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... proportion as more or less labour was bestowed on their production , has himself erected another standard measure of value , and speaks of things being more or less valuable , in proportion as they will exchange for more or less of this ...
... proportion as more or less labour was bestowed on their production , has himself erected another standard measure of value , and speaks of things being more or less valuable , in proportion as they will exchange for more or less of this ...
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... proportion between the supply and demand , which uniformly varies with every change in the condition of the community , but also by the varying price of food and other neces- saries , on which the wages of labour are expended ? In the ...
... proportion between the supply and demand , which uniformly varies with every change in the condition of the community , but also by the varying price of food and other neces- saries , on which the wages of labour are expended ? In the ...
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... proportion between two different quantities of labour . The time spent in two different sorts of work will not always alone determine this proportion . The different degrees of hardship endured , and of ingenuity exercised , must ...
... proportion between two different quantities of labour . The time spent in two different sorts of work will not always alone determine this proportion . The different degrees of hardship endured , and of ingenuity exercised , must ...
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... proportion between them therefore must remain the same , and cannot well be altered , at least for any considerable time , by any such revolutions . " * SECTION III . Not only the labour applied immediately to commodities affect their ...
... proportion between them therefore must remain the same , and cannot well be altered , at least for any considerable time , by any such revolutions . " * SECTION III . Not only the labour applied immediately to commodities affect their ...
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... proportion of the whole produce bestowed on the men who obtained it were large or small . The proportion which might be paid for wages is of the utmost importance in the question of profits ; for it must at once be seen , that profits ...
... proportion of the whole produce bestowed on the men who obtained it were large or small . The proportion which might be paid for wages is of the utmost importance in the question of profits ; for it must at once be seen , that profits ...
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