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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 edition. Excerpt: ... definitions in A dissertation on value. 83 chapter ix. on the definition and use of teems by the authob of "A cbitical dissebtation on the natube, measuee, and causes of value." It might perhaps be thought unnecessary to notice the deviations from the most obvious rules for the use of terms in "A Critical Dissertation on the Nature, Measure, and Causes of Value," by an anonymous writer. But the great importance of the subject itself, the tone of scientific precision in which the dissertation is written, notwithstanding its fundamental errors, and the impression which it is understood to have made among some considerable political economists, seem to call for and justify attention to it. The author, in his preface, observes, that " Writers on political economy have generally contented themselves with a short definition of the term value, and a distinction of the property denoted by it into several kinds, and have then proceeded to employ the word with various degrees of laxity. Not one of them has brought into distinct view the nature of the idea represented by this term, or the inferences which a full perception of its meaning immediately suggests; and the neglect of this preliminary has created differences of opinion and perplexities of thought which
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