Skip to content
Shawords

Quote#Politics & Power

The money received for sales has no other significance or value than…

Quote byJohn Atkinson Hobson · 1858–1940

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Morals of Economic Internationalism (1920).

English (original)

The money received for sales has no other significance or value than its power to buy, and trade can only be imaged truly as an exchange of goods for goods in which the processes of selling and of buying are complementary.

— John Atkinson Hobson

More from John Atkinson Hobson