 | Adam Smith - 2007 - 597 oldal
...that object conveys. The one may be called "value in use;" the other, "value an exchange." The things which have the greatest value in use have frequently...more useful than water: but it will purchase scarce any thing; scarce any thing can be had in exchange for it. A diamond, on the contrary, has scarce any... | |
 | Michael Lewis - 2007 - 1476 oldal
...conveys. The one may be called value in use; the other value in exchange. The things," he continues, "which have the greatest value in use, have frequently...those which have the greatest value in exchange, have little or no value in use." Water and air are abundantly useful; they are indeed indispensable to existence,... | |
 | Randy R. Grant, John Leadley, Zenon X. Zygmont - 2008 - 562 oldal
...economists including Adam Smith. In Smith's The Wealth of Nations (Book I, Chapter IV, I 13), he wrote that "Nothing is more useful than water; but it will purchase scarce anything; scarce anything can be had in exchange for it. A diamond, on the contrary, has scarce any value in use; but... | |
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The things which have the greatest value in use have frequently little or no value in exchange; and, on the contrary, those which have the greatest value in exchange have frequently little or no value in use. Nothing is more useful than water: but it... 
