Wherefore it is impossible to succeed in comparing wealth of different eras or different nations. This, in political economy, like squaring the circle in mathematics, is impracticable, for want of a common mean or measure to go by.

— Jean-Baptiste Say A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition) (1832)

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