Speculation would have moved both extremes closer to an average.
Category: Prices
THE CORN LAWS AND THE WAGES OF WORKERS
Do the supporters of free-trade predict that, under the reign of their principles, there will not be any wage fluctuations anymore?
SECOND ARTICLE
The service eventually, which would be simplified to an incommensurable extent, will certainly allow for notable savings.
COBDEN AND THE LEAGUE
Trade being an exchange of equal values, a nation that refuses to buy cannot sell, and all restrictions to imports constitute an obstacle to exports.
FIFTH SPEECH
Sophisms are not false reasonings, they are incomplete reasonings.
SECOND SPEECH
For each individual, for each industry, for each nation, the surest way of becoming rich is to enrich others.
TAX ON SALT
In order to vote in favour of reducing such taxes, it is necessary to start by not voting constantly in favour of more government spending.
TWO WAYS OF LEVELLING OUT TAXES
Levelling out through taxes is way more dangerous than levelling out through free-trade.
FOOD PRICE INCREASE, WAGES GROWTH
Let bread and meat prices increase, everybody will be happy.
ABOUT THE CEREALS’ EXPORTS PROHIBITION
Public opinion is what creates the law; public opinion needs to be enlightened.
THE SLIDING SCALE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
Fixing the price of wheat through legislation is deceptive and dire towards all interested parties, mainly towards those who are supposed to be helped by it.
THOUGHTS ABOUT THE YEAR 1846
In order to feed the people, we are appealing to this very freedom, which was said to be a principle of suffering and ruin.
PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SERVICES
The equivalence of services results from voluntary exchange and the free bargaining that precedes it.
ON VALUE.
The science of economics would be impossible if it recognized as values only those values that are judiciously appraised.
NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL SOCIAL ORDER
It is a far cry from a social order founded on the general laws of humanity to an artificial, contrived, and invented order that does not take these laws into account or denies them or scorns them—an order, in a word, such as some of our modern schools of thought would, it seems, impose upon us.
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.
VI. LES INTERMÉDIAIRES.
[Les services privés] ont toujours pour eux la présomption d’utilité réelle, exactement mesurée par leur valeur comparative.
6. THE MIDDLEMEN.
[Private services] are always characterized by the presumption of genuine utility, accurately measured by their comparative value.
XVIII. – THERE ARE NO ABSOLUTE PRINCIPLES.
You are faced with two paths and you have to choose; and one inevitably leads to poverty.