Commodities

Examples

• But though labour be the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities, it is not that by which their value is commonly estimated. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The profits of stock vary with the price of the commodities in which it is employed. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The expense, too, which is laid out in durable commodities, is favourable not only to accumulation, but to frugality. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The high price of such commodities does not necessarily diminish the ability of the inferior ranks of people to bring up families. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In the purchase of foreign commodities, this enhancement in the price of corn may give them some little advantage. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In raising the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates in the same manner as simple interest does in the accumulation of debt. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Their expense is taxed, by taxing the consumable commodities upon which it is laid out. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Rent, it is to be observed, therefore, enters into the composition of the price of commodities in a different way from wages and profit. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Upon the exportation of the greater part of commodities to other countries, half the old subsidy was drawn back. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• All commodities are more or less liable to variations of price, but some are much more so than others. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Labour therefore, is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In consequence of its being the measure of value, we estimate that of all other commodities by the quantity of money which they will exchange for. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The commodities chiefly exposed for sale in the public streets are marine stores, hard-bake, apples, flat-fish, and oysters. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The non-enumerated commodities could originally be exported to all parts of the world. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Many different commodities, it is probable, were successively both thought of and employed for this purpose. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The market is here overstocked both with commodities and with labour. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Consumable commodities, whether necessaries or luxuries, may be taxed in two different ways. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• At the same time and place, the real and the nominal price of all commodities are exactly in proportion to one another. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• This hotel have recently enlarge, do offer all commodities on moderate price, at the strangers gentlemen who whish spend the seasons on the Lake Come. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Consumable commodities are either necessaries or luxuries. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But this cheapness was not the effect of the high value of silver, but of the low value of those commodities. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Every commodity, besides, is more frequently exchanged for, and thereby compared with, other commodities, than with labour. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In some places it is so at this day; nor will money at present purchase a greater quantity of commodities there than in other places. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Among those commodities would be comprehended all the necessaries of life, and all the materials of manufacture. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Where such taxes, therefore, are properly assessed, and upon proper commodities, they are paid with less grumbling than any other. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The rise in the price of the taxed commodities, will not necessarily occasion any rise in the wages of labour. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It is something external, an accumulation of cognitions as one might store material commodities in a warehouse. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But there are other employments in which the same quantity of industry will not always produce the same quantity of commodities. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Taxes upon luxuries have no tendency to raise the price of any other commodities, except that of the commodities taxed. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In several countries, however, commodities of an immediate or very speedy consumption are taxed in this manner. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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