 | Robert A. Degen - 2011 - 217 стор.
...butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from regard to their own interest. People of the same trade seldom meet together, even...the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. Monopoly of one kind or another, indeed, seems to be the sole engine of the mercantile system. Consumption... | |
 | Stein Ringen - 2009 - 336 стор.
...populations is a result of political priorities and not shortages. '" As Adam Smith famously observed: "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even...the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices." Smith 1776, 1:10:2. nation that a well-functioning welfare state is a necessary ingredient in the politics... | |
 | Eelke M. Heemskerk - 2007 - 260 стор.
...very well, which he believed was inherent of economic actors. In a much-quoted sentence he writes, 'people of the same trade seldom meet together, even...the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.' Smith continues to note that 'it is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either... | |
 | Michael Mandelbaum - 2007 - 336 стор.
...PublicAffairs, 2005, 273. 4. Nor have they invariably supported free markets. According to Adam Smith, "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even...the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices." Smith, The Wealth of Nations, New York: The Modern Library, 1994, first published 1776, 148. 5. "For... | |
 | Michael Mandelbaum - 2007 - 336 стор.
...PublicAffairs, 2005, 273. 4. Nor have they invariably supported free markets. According to Adam Smith, "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even...the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices." Smith, The Wealth of Nations, New York: The Modern Library, 1994, first published 1776, 148. 5. "For... | |
 | Mark Skousen - 2007 - 280 стор.
...no apologist for merchants and special interests. ln one of his more famous passages, he complained, "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even...the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices" (128). His goal was to convince legislators to resist supporting the vested interests of merchants... | |
 | Giorgio Monti - 2007 - 506 стор.
...these meetings were not social occasions: their purpose was anticompetitive.88 As Adam Smith put it, 'people of the same trade seldom meet together, even...against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices'.89 In (c) however there is no agreement to meet, merely a unilateral and unsolicited offer... | |
 | Samuel Gregg - 2007 - 200 стор.
...their goods without having to take risks, innovate, or work more efficiently. As Smith famously wrote, "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even...against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices."61 Regrettably, the conversation rarely stops among themselves. It invariably results in efforts... | |
 | Michael Shermer - 2008 - 346 стор.
...that would serve the special interests of producers rather than the general interests of consumers: "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even...against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices."30 He also did not argue that self-interest is always good. He believed that self-interest... | |
 | Price V. Fishback - 2008 - 634 стор.
...enforcer of cartel agreements in the majority of industries in America. Adam Smith's observation that "people of the same trade seldom meet together, even...conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance raise prices" seems to have held true for many of the NRA code negotiations (Smith 1937, 128). The... | |
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People of the same trade seldom meet together even for merriment and diversion but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public or in some contrivance to raise prices. 
