 | Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman - 1925 - 418 páginas
...which it shall be unlawful to ask or take. Adam Smith already 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." Even then the movement had begun; to-day it has become... | |
 | Benjamin Sollow Kirsh - 1928 - 280 páginas
...ways of the courts with the emphatic view of the economist, Adam Smith, that "people of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion,...the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public or some contrivance to raise prices." 20 The Maple Flooring and Cement cases incorporated into... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance - 1935 - 830 páginas
...tends to monopoly. Senator BLACK. You do not agree with this statement then: 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. Mr. WILLIAMS. I do not think that is so. I do not know... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1937 - 546 páginas
...connection the shrewd remark of Adam Smith some 160 years ago when he wrote, "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 know the defense which is made for both open-price... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1937 - 846 páginas
...connection the shrewd remark of Adam Smith some 160 years ago when he wrote, ''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 know the defense which is made for both open-price... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Temporary National Economic Committee - 1939 - 1692 páginas
...Fetter, may I ask two more questions? You will recall this language, I am sure. "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. It is impossible to prevent such meeting? by any law... | |
 | 1940 - 768 páginas
...quality, service, price, or terms of sale. As Adam Smith remarked in 1776, ''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." 2* COST ACCOUNTING Conspicuous among association activities... | |
 | Walter Adams, James W. Brock - 1986 - 386 páginas
...among themselves worldwide. The Public Policy Options "People of the same trade," Adam Smith observed, "seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion,...the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public or some contrivance to raise prices." How to counteract this apparently irresistible temptation... | |
 | Alan Redfern - 2004 - 728 páginas
...competition laws Adam Smith, writing in the eighteenth century, said: 3-16 "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."51 This early distrust of monopolies and cartels finds... | |
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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. 
