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27. Principles, p. 10 : Thèse commodities (celles dont le prix est un prix de monopole) form a very small part of the mass of commodities daily excbanged in the market. By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects oi désire, are procured by labour.

28. Voir notamment, p. 66 : Â fall in the gênerai rate of profits is by no means incompatible with a partial riae of profits in particular employments. It is through the inequality of profits, that capital is moved from one employment to another; mais il ajoute: whilst, then, gênerai profits are faliing. . . the profits of the former may, for an interval ofsome UtUe duration^ be above the former level.— Pp. 174-175 : It is not to be supposed that he (the producer)should, for any length oftime, be ill-informed of the commodities which he can most advantageously prodnce, to attain the object which he bas in view, namely, the possession of other goods ; and, therefore, it is not probable that he will continualiy produce a commodity for which there is no demand. — P. 176 : Whether thèse increased productions, and the conséquent demand which they occasion, shall or shali not lower profits, dépends solely on the rise of wagcs ; and the rise of wages, excepting for a limited period, on the facility of producing tbe food and necessaries of the labourer. I say exceptiug for a limited perioif because no point is better established, than that the supply of labourers will always ultimately be in proportion to the means of supportingtbem. (Noter qu'il n'y a -aucun lien logique, malgré le c because », entre les deux membres de la dernière phrase, à moins que par « limited >, on n'entende <i illimité, indéterminé s). — P. 232 : It is the cost of production which must ultimately régula te the price of commodities, and not, as bas been often said, the proportion between the supply and demand : tiie proportion between supply and demand may, indeed, for a Umey affect the market value of a commodity, until it is supplied in greateror less abundance, according as the demand may bave increased or diminished; but this effect will be only of temporary duration.

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