Völkerrecht und Landesrecht

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

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Identifikator:: 189206295X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-239471

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Triepel, Heinrich http://d-nb.info/gnd/117417920

Title:: Völkerrecht und Landesrecht

Place of publication:: Tübingen

Publisher:: Mohr Siebeck

Year of publication:: 1907

Scope:: XII, 452 S.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Erstes Kapitel. Völkerrecht und Landesrecht als Gegensätze

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NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 253 raising the value of money, s0 accurately describes the only process which can be termed with propriety measur- ing value, that I cannot resist the temptation of inserting it here in confirmation of my own views. ¢¢ By this measure of commerce, viz. the quantity of silver, men measure the value of all other things. Thus to measure what the value of lead is to wheat, and of either of them to a certain sort of linen cloth, the quantity of silver that each is valued at, or sells for, needs only be known ; for if a yard of cloth be sold for half an ounce of silver, a bushel of wheat for one ounce, and a hundred weight of lead for two ounces; any one presently sees and says, that a bushel of wheat is double the value of a yard of that cloth, and but half the value of an hundred weight of lead.” — Further Considerations concerning raising the Value of Money. NOTE H (page 158). Many of the strictures which have been made on Mr. Ricardo’s writings, in this and other chapters, would be in some degree obviated if two things were conceded, namely, if we assumed that he was constantly speaking of real value, and if we were to grant him the absurdity which we have shown this expression to imply ; or, in other words, if we were to consider it as importing cost of production, without relation to the power of commanding in exchange. But then, although some inconsistencies

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