创造财富的根本在于生产力的不断提高。
市场竞争能够促进资源的有效配置。
地租是由土地的肥沃度和位置所决定的。
自由贸易使得资源得以最优配置。
经济的关键是适度的竞争,而不是垄断。
贸易能够使各国都受益,即便是相对劣势的国家。
土地是一种独特的生产要素,其供给是有限的。
工资水平取决于工人所需的最低生活水平。
I am convinced that the substitution of a simple tax on the rent of land for the complicated taxes which at present oppress industry would be advantageous to all classes.
The principal effect of the progress of society is to increase the quantity of wealth, and the power of distributing it.
In international trade, a country should specialize in the production of goods for which it has a comparative advantage, and trade with other nations to maximize overall economic welfare.
The natural price of labor is that price which is necessary to enable the laborers, one with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.
Competition regulates the rate of profit, and profit regulates the rate of accumulation.