 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1809 - 372 pages
...lowest which the sellers can commonly afford to take, and at the same time continue their business. The exclusive privileges of corporations, statutes...them, have the same tendency, though in a less degree. They are a sort of enlarged monopolies, and may frequently, for ages together, and in whole classes... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1838 - 476 pages
...privileges of corporation«, statutes of apprenticeship, and all those laws which restrain in pa|ticular employments, the competition to a smaller number than...them, have the same tendency, though in a less degree. They are a curt of enlarged monopolies, and may frequently, for ages together, and in whole classes... | |
 | 1847 - 796 pages
...in trade or manufactures. The price of monopoly is on every occasion the highest which can be got. The exclusive privileges of corporations, statutes...employments, the competition to a smaller number than otherwise might go into them, have the same tendency. The real and effectual discipline which is exercised... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1869 - 576 pages
...price may be lower at present if the cabs were fewer. So, r-I * CHAP. vu. THE WEALTH OF NATIONS. 65 The exclusive privileges of corporations, statutes...restrain in particular employments the competition (oa smaller number than might otherwise go into them, have the same tendency, though in a less degree.... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1875 - 808 pages
...lowest which the sellers can commonly afford to take, and at the same time continue their business. The exclusive privileges of corporations, statutes...them, have the same tendency, though in a less degree. They are a sort of enlarged monopolies, and may frequently, for ages together, and in whole classes... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - 1877 - 260 pages
...highest which can be got ; 2 the natural price is the lowest which, on an average, can be taken, p. 64. The exclusive privileges of corporations, statutes...might, otherwise, go into them, have the same tendency. They are a sort of monopoly, which may, for ages, keep up the market price of commodities above the... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - Labor - 1882 - 186 pages
...societies. Adam Smith refers in a condemnatory tone to the exclusive privileges of corporations, and all laws which restrain in particular employments the...smaller number than might otherwise go into them. They are, he thought, a sort of enlarged monopoly, and might keep the market price of particular commodities... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1894 - 526 pages
...lowest which the sellers can commonly afford to take, and at the same time continue their business. The exclusive privileges of corporations, statutes...them, have the same tendency, though in a less degree. They are a sort of enlarged monopolies, and may frequently, for ages together, and in whole classes... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1909 - 646 pages
...the sellers can commonly afford to take, and at the same time continue their business. The exlusive privileges of corporations, statutes of apprenticeship,...them, have the same tendency, though in a less degree. They are a sort of enlarged monopolies, and may frequently, for ages together, and in whole classes... | |
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The exclusive privileges of corporations, statutes of apprenticeship, and all those laws which restrain, in particular employments, the competition to a smaller number than might otherwise go into them, have the same tendency, though in a less degree. 
