 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.  Selected Readings in Economics - Страница 113написао/ла Charles Jesse Bullock - 1907 - 705 страницаПуни преглед - О овој књизи
 | Lewis Henry Haney - 1913 - 520 страница
...etc. In 1776 Adam Smith wrote : " People of the same trade hardly meet together even for merriment or diversion but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices." Over one hundred years later, Mr. CM Schwab, the steel magnate,... | |
 | Walton Hale Hamilton - 1916 - 914 страница
...every opportunity for the meeting together of wageearners of the same trade. Adam Smith remarked that "people of the same trade seldom meet together, even...conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices." And there is actual evidence of the rise of one of the oldest... | |
 | Frank Ferdinand Rosenblatt - 1916 - 268 страница
...unionism were made even in the beginning of the new factory system. Adam Smith had already observed that " people of the same trade seldom meet together, even...merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in conspiracy against the public or in some contrivance to raise prices ".1 There certainly were such... | |
 | John Frederick Brown - 1918 - 200 страница
...spirit did not prevent." (p. 115.) "Townspeople of the same trade seldom meet together for merriment or diversion but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public or in some contrivance to raise prices." (p. 117.)* This is Adam Smith's explanation of how arose the... | |
 | Mark Starr - 1919 - 208 страница
...presumably for social purposes. But, as Adam Smith wrote: "The people of the same trade seldom meet together for merriment and diversion but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public [!] in some contrivance to raise wages." 1700-1799. — The following are examples of authentic Trade... | |
 | Paul Dulaney Converse - 1924 - 650 страница
...develop a demand for these berries and to get them to the city markets? Chapter XXII TRADE ASSOCIATIONS "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even...conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. . . . Though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from... | |
 | Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman - 1925 - 418 страница
...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...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 well-nigh... | |
 | Benjamin Sollow Kirsh - 1928 - 270 страница
...occurred the parting of the ways of the courts with the emphatic view of the economist, Adam Smith, that "people of the same trade seldom meet together, even...conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public or some contrivance to raise prices." 20 The Maple Flooring and Cement cases incorporated into the body... | |
 | Dexter Merriam Keezer, Addison Thayer Cutler, Frank Richardson Garfield - 1928 - 736 страница
...years ago, in the infancy of our present business system, Adam Smith ventured the observation that "people of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public or in some contrivance to raise prices." 4 Of... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance - 1935 - 200 страница
...getting together in itself tends to monopoly. Senator BLACK. You do not agree with this statement then: People of the same trade seldom meet together even...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 whom you... | |
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