The demand for money is regulated entirely by its value, and its value by its quantity.
David RicardoIf English money was of the same value then as before, Hamburgh money must have risen in value. But where is the proof of this?
David RicardoIf 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.
David RicardoThe produce of the earth - all that is derived from its surface by the united application of labour, machinery, and capital, is divided among three classes of the community, namely, the proprietor of the land, the owner of the stock or capital necessary for its cultivation, and the labourers by whose industry it is cultivated.
David Ricardo