Commodity

Examples

• It is in England taxed at three shillings and fourpence a bushel; about three times the original price of the commodity. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The real price of this commodity, therefore, naturally rises in the progress of improvement. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• When we compare the precious metals with one another, silver is a cheap, and gold a dear commodity. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• They will do this, I say, more nearly than equal quantities of almost any other commodity; for even equal quantities of corn will not do it exactly. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The quantity of every commodity brought to market naturally suits itself to the effectual demand. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Such taxes, therefore, are really equivalent, they say, to a tax upon every particular commodity produced at home. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• This lowest price is that which barely replaces, with a moderate profit, the stock which must be employed in bringing the commodity thither. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The greater part of people, too, understand better what is meant by a quantity of a particular commodity, than by a quantity of labour. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The nature of the commodity renders it not quite so proper for being transported to distant markets as wool. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It is because high or low wages and profit must be paid, in order to bring a particular commodity to market, that its price is high or low. 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.
• The operation of the bounty upon corn must have been wonderfully different, if it has lowered the money price of that commodity. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• If it is a commodity of home growth or manufacture, less labour comes to be employed in raising and producing it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I reckon on being able to get out of you a little of that precious commodity called amusement, which mamma and Mistress Snowe there fail to yield me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The labour of the menial servant, on the contrary, does not fix or realize itself in any particular subject or vendible commodity. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• 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.

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