Übervölkertes Land

A critical dissertation on the nature, measures and causes of value

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Identifikator:: 1014415187

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-22842

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Landwehr, Ottokar

Title:: Übervölkertes Land

Place of publication:: Wien

Publisher:: Wilhelm Braumüller Universitäts-Verlagsbuchhandlung

Year of publication:: 1923

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (59 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Das Städtewesen

Collection:: Economics Books

OF VALUE. 101 But in relation to what object is it wished to ineasure the value of A and its fluctuations? We cannot speak of value, as I have before shown, without meaning value in something, and as only A and the standard commodity which may be called B are here in question, the value of A must mean its value in B. It is wished therefore to measure the relation between A and B at two different periods by B, which if it has any signification must imply, that it is wished to ascertain the value of a and B rela- tively to each other at two different periods. These are historical facts, and when we have learned them as we learn other facts, we shall certainly know the fluctuations which the relation between A and B has undergone ; but B is, in this procedure, by no means a mea- sure of value, ora medium of comparison, any more than A. In a word, turn the matter as we please, we shall find that we can have no measure of value but in the sense already ex plained. From this examination it appears, that a

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