Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.

The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.

Every short statement about economics is misleading (with the possible exception of my present one).

Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species.

In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.

Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.

The most reckless and treacherous of all theorists is he who professes to let facts and figures speak for themselves.