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Alfred Marshall

The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.

Alfred Marshall

Finance

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The cost of any item varies depending on when and where you buy it, which means the value of money changes relative to that item. This means that money can buy more or less of something depending on these fluctuations in price.

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