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Read Ebook: Harmonies of Political Economy Translated from the Third French Edition with a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author by Bastiat Fr D Ric Stirling Patrick James Translator
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Nature and human labour co-operate in various proportions in the production of commodities. The part which nature executes is always gratuitous; it is the part executed by human labour which constitutes value, and is paid for.
If a Lisbon orange sells for half the price of a Paris orange, it is because natural, and consequently gratuitous heat, does for the one, what artificial, and therefore expensive heat, must do for the other.
When an orange comes to us from Portugal, we may conclude that it is furnished in part gratuitously, in part for an onerous consideration; in other words, it comes to us atAdd to tbrJar First Page Next Page Prev Page