...reward for having your money at such a place where you most need the use of it' The sentence 'labour is the father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the mother ' occurs in his Treatise of Taxes, but is not introduced as original on the author's part Locke's own...

...William Petty makes value rest on expenses of production, reducing them to labor and land. " Labour is the father and active principle of Wealth, as Lands are the mother." But he seeks to reduce these two expenses to a single unit, " so as to express the value of anything...

...reward for having your money at such a place where you most need the use of it' The sentence ' labour is the father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the mother ' occurs in his Treatise of Taxes, but is not introduced as original on the author's part Locke's own...

...precious metals; and that the sources of wealth were labor and land. His corcise sentence , "Labor is the father and active principle of wealth as lands are the mother" leaves no room for uncertainty. In 1735 Berkeley submitted the same question, viz., "whether the four...

...economy, said in his Treatise of Taxes and Contributions (London, 1662), ch. x, s. 10 : "That Labour is the Father and active principle of Wealth, as Lands are the Mother " ; and in Captain John Graunt's Natural and Political Observations on the Bills of Mortality — a...

...Faden nicht aufgegriffen und es nicht verstanden, ihre eigenen Sätze klar und konsequent 1) „Labour is the father and active principle of wealth as lands are the mother." 2) Die Werke Pettys sind jetzt (zusammen mit den Betrachtungen über die Londoner Sterbelisten, die...

...result of national wealth as gold and silver; and also with the partly physiocratic view that 'labour is the father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the mother',9 or that 'all things ought to be valued by two natural denominations, which is land and labour'.10...

...observers. This is the perhaps truistic position reflected in William Petty's observation that "Labor is the Father and active principle of Wealth as Lands are the Mother"; land and labor are the "natural" sources of surplus, of economic growth. The Physiocrats had argued...

...William Petty (d. 1687) was actively linked with trade matters and improved productivity, for "Labour is the Father and active principle of Wealth, as Lands are the Mother." Against the waste of productive labor potential in overuse of capital punishment and idle imprisonment,...

...9.7.21). 27. Letters to Malthus, pp. 148-149 (letter of 30.1.18). 28. Petty 's aphorism — "Labour is the Father and active principle of Wealth, as Lands are the Mother" — was probably intended to express this meaning. 29. The earlier Classical economists tended to ignore...