Давид Рикардо цитаты

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„Капитал страны является или основным, или оборотным в зависимости от степени своей долговечности.“

„Вода и воздух чрезвычайно полезны, они прямо необходимы для существования, однако при обычных условиях за них нельзя ничего получить в обмен. Напротив, золото, хотя полезность его в сравнении с воздухом или водой очень мала, обменивается на большое количество других благ.“

„Соразмерно уменьшению капитала страны необходимо уменьшится и её производство; поэтому если такие [непроизводительные] расходы народа и правительства продолжаются и если годовое воспроизводство постоянно уменьшается, то ресурсы народа и государства будут падать с возрастающей быстротой, и результатом будут нищета и разорение.“

„Налог на экспорт кукурузы снижает ее цену для иностранного потребителя, но не оказывает постоянного влияния на ее цену на внутреннем рынке.“

“Every transaction in commerce is an independent transaction.”

“Population regulates itself by the funds which are to employ it, and therefore always increases or diminishes with the increase or the diminution of capital. Every reduction of capital is therefore necessarily followed by a less effective demand for corn, by a fall in price, and by diminished cultivation.”

“No extension of foreign trade will immediately increase the amount of value in a country, although it will very powerfully contribute to increase the mass of commodities and therefore the sum of enjoyments.”

“Whenever the current of money is forcibly stopped, and when money is prevented from settling at its just level, there are no limits to the possible variations of the exchange.”

“Mr. Malthus says, " It has been justly observed by Adam Smith that no equal quantity of productive labour employed in manufactures can ever occasion so great a reproduction as in agriculture. " If Adam Smith speaks of value, he is correct; but if he speaks of riches, which is the important point, he is mistaken; for he has himself defined riches to consist of the necessaries, conveniences, and enjoyments of human life. One set of necessaries and conveniences admits of no comparison with another set; value in use cannot be measured by any known standard; it is differently estimated by different persons.”

“If I have to hire a labourer for a week, and instead of ten shillings I pay him eight, no variation having taken place in the value of money, the labourer can probably obtain more food and necessaries with his eight shillings than he before obtained for ten: but this is owing, not to a rise in the real value of his wages, as stated by Adam Smith, and more recently by Mr. Malthus, but to a fall in the value of the things on which his wages are expended, things perfectly distinct; and yet for calling this a fall in the real value of wages, I am told that I adopt new and unusual language, not reconcilable with the true principals of the science. To me it appears that the unusual and, indeed, inconsistent language is that used by my opponents.”