Profits are not made by differential cleverness, but by differential stupidity.

Again two manufacturers may employ the same amount of fixed, and the same amount of circulating capital; but the durability of their fixed capitals may be very unequal.

Like all other contracts, wages should be left to the fair and free competition of themarket, and should never be controlled by the interference of the legislature.

The price of corn will naturally rise with the difficulty of producing the last portions of it.

If English money was of the same value then as before, Hamburgh money must have risen in value. But where is the proof of this?

A BOUNTY on the exportation of corn tends to lower its price to the foreign consumer, but it has no permanent effect on its price in the home market.

For price is everywhere regulated by the return obtained by this last portion of capital, for which no rent whatever is paid.