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Social reformers and legislators will never be economists, and they will always work on economic theory of one kind or another.
The Scope and Method of Political Economy in the Light of the 'Marginal' Theory of Value and Distribution (1914)
In fact, a man can be neither a saint, nor a lover, nor a poet, unless he has comparatively recently had something to eat.
The Common Sense of Political Economy (1910)
Thus each is making what some one else wants in order to get what he wants himself.
The Common Sense of Political Economy (1910)
Now the "common something," which all exchangeable things contain, is neither more nor less than abstract utility, i.e. power of satisfying human desires.
The Marxian Theory of Value: Das Kapital: A Criticism (1884)
The equation which always holds in the case of a normal exchange is an equation not of labour, but of abstract utility, significantly called worth.
The Marxian Theory of Value: Das Kapital: A Criticism (1884)