Adam Smith：The Wealth of Nations, Book I, Chapter XI, Paragraph 614

As the low value of gold and silver, therefore, is no proof of the wealth and flourishing state of the country where it takes place; so neither is their high value, or the low money price either of goods in general, or of corn in particular, any proof of its poverty and barbarism.

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