[599]. Report of R. S. L., 1824, p. 21.
[600]. We might expressly wish to know a coat’s value in money or its value in cutlery or coals. The Professor at the Breakfast-table talks of “Madeira worth from two to six Bibles a bottle.”
[601]. Definitions (1827), p. 235.
[602]. I. e. to the object which measures that cost-value.
[603]. Ibid., p. 243.
[604]. See above, p. 254. Ricardo’s long correspondence with Malthus on the subject is mentioned by Empson, Edin. Rev., l. c. p. 469. Empson’s extracts from it are the most valuable part of his article.
[605]. R. Torrens, Production of Wealth, 1821, pp. iv, v.
[606]. Held, Sociale Geschichte Englands, p. 205.
[607]. Dialogues of Three Templars on Political Economy, 1824 (Works, Black, 1863, vol. iv.). All depends on the assumption in the middle of Dialogue I. p. 196, (“it is Mr. Ricardo’s doctrine that,” &c.), and on the confinement of the discussion to natural value (p. 198).
[608]. Measure of Value, p. 20 n.