The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith, Part 2
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The Real and Nominal Price of Commodities
Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life. The far greater part of these with which a man's own labor can supply him must derive from the labor of other people. Labor therefore is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased.
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