An idea from On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation

A thing that can be made in any amount trades for other things in proportion to the work it takes to make. If a beaver takes twice the labour of a deer, one beaver trades for two deer. What the hunters happen to be paid doesn’t change that ratio.

From On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation by David Ricardo

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