The Factors Left Out Of The Ricardian

No Extension Of Foreign Trade Will Immediately Increase The Amount Of Value In A Country, Although It Will Very Powerfully Contribute To Increase The Mass Of Commodities And Therefore The Sum Of Enjoyments.

By Far The Greatest Part Of Those Goods Which Are The Objects Of Desire, Are Procured By Labour And They May Be Multiplied, Not In One Country Alone, But In Many, Almost Without Any Assignable Limit, If We Are Disposed To Bestow The Labour Necessary To Obtain Them.

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.

The 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.

Labour, Like All Other Things Which Are Purchased And Sold... Has Its Natural And Its Market Price.