agent of production
Britishnoun
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Smith, Ricardo, and de Tracy, on the contrary, say that labor is the sole agent of production.
From What is Property? by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)
The gain of one group or agent of production may simply be another's loss.
From The Settlement of Wage Disputes by Feis, Herbert
The broad fact, and it is a most important one, is that capital, a necessary agent of production, can never be monopolized.
From Monopolies and the People by Baker, Charles Whiting
The present movement aims at a similar increase in the efficiency of labour as an agent of production.
From The War and Democracy by
As a matter of fact each group or agent of production receives, not what it must receive, 61 but rather what it manages to secure in the higgling of the market.
From The Settlement of Wage Disputes by Feis, Herbert
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