There is no want of an example of a people who would have paid to be oppressed, from whom money has been snatched in order to bereave its freedom.
Category: Competition
FIRST LETTER TO THE EDITOR OF THE JOURNAL DES DEBATS
Indeed I need to reason like land surveyors do, following the principle that all other things are equal.
COBDEN AND THE LEAGUE
The construction of an aqueduct was considered; however, the water carriers found out that their social rights would have vanished.
FREE TRADE
Our demand is that our fellow countrymen, who are free to work, be free to trade the fruits of their labour.
LETTER FROM AN ECONOMIST TO MR. DE LAMARTINE
We are not aware of any possible labour organisation in a free country other than that of freedom, compensating itself through competition, ability and morality.
PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SERVICES
Public service eliminates, in law or in fact, private services of the same nature.
PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SERVICES
The equivalence of services results from voluntary exchange and the free bargaining that precedes it.
COMPETITION.
I do not deny, I recognize and deplore as much as others, the suffering that competition has inflicted on men; but is this a reason for shutting our eyes to the good that it accomplishes?
COMPETITION.
To harm others is to harm ourselves; to spread obstacles, tariffs, coalitions, or wars along the path of others is to obstruct our own progress.
COMPETITION.
A host of circumstances contributes to making the remuneration of labor unequal.
COMPETITION.
But competition intervenes among the capitalists.
COMPETITION.
Excessive compensations by their very nature arouse covetousness.
COMPETITION.
Competition is that no less indomitable humanitarian force that wrests progress, as fast as it is made, from the hands of the individual and places it at the disposal of all mankind.
COMPETITION.
The accusation that competition tends toward inequality is far from true. On the contrary, all artificial inequality is due to the absence of competition;
LANDED PROPERTY.
Thus, Jonathan learned that, under a system of liberty, not everyone who will may become a monopolist.
ON VALUE.
It is too bad, perhaps, that tokay wine is not as plentiful, and therefore not as cheap, as ordinary red wine. But this is not a social evil; it was imposed on us by Nature.
ABUNDANCE
Basically, what we are all aspiring to is that each of our efforts should achieve the greatest possible level of well-being.
CAPITAL AND RENT
…but from the economic point of view the loan itself could never be considered responsible for previous necessities that it had not created and which, to some extent it relieves.
BACCALAUREATE AND SOCIALISM
The effect of competition is to stimulate good methods, reveal them and make them universal, and eliminate bad ones.
PROPERTY AND PLUNDER
However, if by usurping legislative power, landowners prohibit the landless farm laborers from working away from the land in return for subsistence, the equilibrium between services is broken.
2. DISMISSING MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES.
But this is where the loss lies. In the village, one man dug and ploughed: he was a worker. At Metz, he turns his head left and right: he is a soldier.
13. – THE FEAR OF A WORD.
That proves that the people still have a lot to learn, and while they are learning it there is no lack of persons like your Mr. Big ready to take advantage of their credulity.
XV. – THE FREE TRADER’S LITTLE ARSENAL.
All injustice is of benefit to someone […]; to defend injustice on the grounds of the inconvenience that its abolition will cause the person who benefits from it, is to say that an injustice should be eternal for the sole reason that it has existed for an instant.
VI. – TO ARTISANS AND WORKERS.
These people do not want any competition for their changing wool into cloth because it is their trade, but they are all too willing to accept competition for the converting of cloth into suits because it is yours.
V. – HIGH PRICES, LOW PRICES.
Doubtless, foreign competition and even competition in general is always a nuisance, and if a branch of activity were able to break free of it on its own, it would do good business for a time.
III. – THE TWO AXES.
Between you and the Belgians, therefore, there is just about the same difference as between a dull and sharp axe.
VII. – PETITION BY THE MANUFACTURERS OF CANDLES, ETC.
Well then, if consumers have an interest in the admission of natural light, producers have one in its prohibition.
IV. – EQUALIZING THE CONDITIONS OF PRODUCTION.
In this way, the generosity of nature, like the advances made in production processes, is or constantly tends to become the common and free heritage of consumers, the masses, and the human race, in accordance with the law of competition.