But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities. (Alfred Marshall)

But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.

Alfred Marshall

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