Malthus and his work

by James Bonar

[589]. Meas. of Value, p. 23.

[590]. Ibid., pp. 27–29.

[591]. Meas. of Value, p. 29 n.

[592]. He might have said simply that the one is intrinsic, the other extrinsic, in relation to the agricultural products themselves.

[593]. Meas. of Value, p. 63.

[594]. Meas. of Value, pp. 67 seq. Cf. below, pp. 283 seq.

[595]. Who allows cost to play a greater part in value. Cf. below, pp. 278–9. But Ricardo, Pol. Econ., sect vi. p. 28, disclaims belief in any universal measure of value.

[596]. Malthus, quoted by Empson, Edin. Rev., Jan. 1837, p. 499.

[597]. He was F.R.S. 1819, and a member of Pol. Econ. Club at its foundation in 1821.

[598]. 4th May, 1825; 7th Nov., 1827. Transactions of it R. S. L., vol. i. part i. p. 171.