Jean-Baptiste Say Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• To the labor of man alone Smith ascribes the power of producing values. This is an error. A more exact analysis demonstrates... that all the values are derived from the operation of labor, or rather from the industry of man, combined with the operation of those agents which nature and capital furnish him.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Men, Errors, Analysis

• The command of a large sum is a dangerous temptation to a national administration. Though accumulated at their expense, the people rarely, if ever profit by it: yet in point of fact, all value, and consequently, all wealth, originates with the people.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  People, Temptation, Administration

  Jean Baptiste Say, Charles Robert Prinsep (1857). “A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth”, p.487

• A much larger value is consumed in lettuces than in pineapples,throughout Europe at large; and the superb shawls of Cachemere are, in France, a very poor object in trade, in comparison with the plain cotton goods of Rouen.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Europe, Pineapples, Cotton

  "A Treatise On Political Economy". Book by Jean-Baptiste Say. Translated from the Fourth Edition of the French by C.R. Prinsep, M.A. With Notes by the Translator. (Sixth American Edition), Chapter VI, p. 323, 1832.

• The wants of mankind are supplied and satisfied out of the gross values produced and created, and not out of the net values only.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Want, Mankind, Gross

  Jean Baptiste Say, Clement Cornell Biddle (1851). “A treatise on political economy”, p.69

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