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Adam Smith and David Ricardo: A comparative study

Adam Smith and David Ricardo: A comparative study

Adam Smith and David Ricardo’s labor Theory of Value
The labor theories of value were generated in response to the quest to determine what constitutes the price or value of a commodity, in other words, what renders value to a commodity? Classical theorists like Smith and Ricardo opine that a commodity derives its value from labor that goes into its production.  In the labor theory of value, the amount of labor necessary to produce a given commodity was considered the 1“common denominator”. And as an extension of the value theory, labor itself is essentially a commodity. Like all other things, labor is bought and sold  (for wages) and has a natural and market price. The natural price of labor is that price which is necessary to enable the laborer, one with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race without either increase or diminution (iron law of wages).
I will first present Smith’s labor theory of value, followed by Ricardo’s labor theory of value, in essence because it served as the basis of Ricardo’s labor theory of value. In fact Ricardo’s labor theory of value went hand in hand with his critique of Smith’s labor theory. 
Smith Labor Theory of

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