 | Edward Clark Lunt - 1888 - 140 páginas
...account ; but Adam Smith noticed the tendency even at that time : " People of the same trade hardly ever meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but...the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public." ' Mill, too, recognized the imperfect action of competition, and devoted a chapter 2 to an... | |
 | David Ames Wells - 1899 - 514 páginas
...limiting or preventing their influence by statute enactments. " People of the same trade," he says, " seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion,...the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices." He, however, admitted that it was " impossible to... | |
 | 1889 - 526 páginas
...pay for wants and necessaries. Shrewd old Adam Smith once said : " People of the same trade hardly meet together even for merriment and diversion but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices." This is as true now as the day it was first written.... | |
 | David Ames Wells - 1889 - 532 páginas
...limiting or preventing their influence by statute enactments. " People of the same trade," he says, " seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy atiiinst the publie, or in some contrivance to raise prices." He, however, admitted that it WM "impossible... | |
 | Wilhelm Hasbach - 1890 - 196 páginas
...as well as the greater part of our other commercial regulations. III, p. 3. People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion,...the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. I, p. 177. 3 ... the desire of bettering our condition... | |
 | Wilhelm Hasbach - 1890 - 196 páginas
.... . . to have abounded in such enquiries. People of the same trade seldom ineet together, even Tor merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. I, p. 177. 2 The private interest of our merchants... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1894 - 526 páginas
...and in every respect contrary to the order of nature and of reason. . . . People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion,...the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or on some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings by... | |
 | Sidney Webb, Beatrice Webb - 1896 - 582 páginas
...prevalence of almsgiving. 22 Benefit Clubs. same trade. Adam Smith remarked that " people of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion,...the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices." 1 And there is actual ev1dence of the rise of one... | |
 | John Philip Young - 1900 - 602 páginas
...the subject of trade combinations show the trend of his thought. "People of the same trade," he says, "seldom meet together even for merriment and diversion,...the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the puBlic or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible, indeed, to prevent such meetings by... | |
 | John Hepburn Millar - 1903 - 736 páginas
...employ an improper person, is evidently as impertinent as it is oppressive. " People of the same trade seldom meet together even for merriment and diversion...the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the publie, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible, indeed, to prevent such meetings... | |
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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. 
