ABSTRACT
The wholesale employers of industry, or adventurers who engage a quantum of productive agency upon a particular product, proportionate to the demand for that product. The farmer, the manutacturer, the merchant, is constantly occupied in comparing the price with the necessary charges of its production. The land-holder and the capitalist receive their revenue periodically, once or twice, or perhaps four times a year, according to the terms of the contract with the transferee. But, in whatever manner; revenue may be derived and must originate in actual value produced. The estimation of individual and of national revenue is made in the same way, as that of every collection of values, under whatever varieties of form; as of the estate of a deceased person. For instance, the revenues of France are said to amount to 1300 millions of dollars; which by no means implies, that the commerce of France produces a return of that amount in specie.
