Possessing Utility, Commodities Derive Their Exchangeable Value

If Then The Prosperity Of The Commercial Classes, Will Most Certainly Lead To Accumulation Of Capital, And The Encouragement Of Productive Industry; These Can By No Means Be So Surely Obtained As By A Fall In The Price Of Corn.

I Have Endeavoured To Show That The Ability To Pay Taxes Depends, Not On The Gross Money Value Of The Mass Of Commodities, Nor On The Net Money Value Of The Revenue Of Capitalists And Landlords, But On The Money Value Of Each Man's Revenue Compared To The Money Value Of The Commodities Which He Usually Consumes.

I Have Already Expressed My Opinion On This Subject In Treating Of Rent, And Have Now Only Further To Add, That Rent Is A Creation Of Value, As I Understand That Word, But Not A Creation Of Wealth.

Possessing Utility, Commodities Derive Their Exchangeable Value From Two Sources: From Their Scarcity, And From The Quantity Of Labour Required To Obtain Them.

For Price Is Everywhere Regulated By The Return Obtained By This Last Portion Of Capital, For Which No Rent Whatever Is Paid.