 | Ronald J. Baker - 2010 - 402 str.
...so-called "diamond-water paradox," which Smith explained in Chapter 4 of Book I of Wealth of Nations: "Nothing is more useful than water: but it will purchase scarce anything. ... A diamond, on the contrary, has scarce any value in use; but a very great quantity of other goods... | |
 | Barry Bozeman - 2007 - 228 str.
...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 will purchase...other goods may frequently be had in exchange for it. One can only speculate as to what Smith would have made of today's prices for bottled "designer" water,... | |
 | Andrew Goatly - 2007 - 464 str.
...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 will purchase...value in use; but a very great quantity of other goods can be had in exchange for it (p. 35). Indeed, exchange value and use value are often inversely related.... | |
 | Adam Smith - 2007 - 597 str.
...in use. Nothing is 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,...other goods may frequently be had in exchange for it, In order to investigate the principles which regulate the exchangeable value of commodities, I shall... | |
 | Cynthia Barnett - 2007 - 260 str.
...in use. Nothing is 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,...other goods may frequently be had in exchange for it."rz In other words, why do we give our most valuable resource away for practically nothing and pay... | |
 | Timothy E. Fulbright, David G. Hewitt - 2007 - 384 str.
...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 will purchase...A diamond, on the contrary, has scarce any value; but a very great quantity of other goods may frequently be had in exchange for it. This has become... | |
 | Adam Smith - 2007 - 513 str.
...in ufe. Nothing is more ufeful than water ; but it will purchafe fcarce any thing ; fcarce any thing can be had in exchange for it. A diamond, on the contrary, has fcarce any value in ufe; but a very great quantity of other goods may frequently be lad in exchange... | |
 | Randy R. Grant, John Leadley, Zenon X. Zygmont - 2008 - 562 str.
...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...other goods may frequently be had in exchange for it." The question Smith was asking is simple: why is the price of water so cheap and the price of diamonds... | |
 | Michael Lewis - 2007 - 1476 str.
...in use. Nothing is more useful than water; but it will purchase scarce any thing; scarce any thing y it out of his hand, cannot, for any considerable...in the long-run, be advanced to him by his immediat In order to investigate the principles which regulate the exchangeable value of commodities, I shall... | |
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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 will... 
