David Ricardo：On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, Excerpt 125

It will be seen then, that whatever rise may take place in the price of corn, in consequence of the necessity of employing more labour and capital to obtain a given additional quantity of produce, such rise will always be equalled in value by the additional rent, or additional labour employed; so that whether corn sells for 4_l._, 4_l._ 10_s._, or 5_l._ 2_s._ 10_d._, the farmer will obtain for that which remains to him, after paying rent, the same real value. Thus we see, that whether the produce belonging to the farmer be 180, 170, 160, or 150 quarters, he always obtains the same sum of 720_l._ for it; the price increasing in an inverse proportion to the quantity.

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