| Richard Whately - Economics - 1831 - 282 pages
...the extent of his dealings, and the prices at which he buys and sells. An abundant supply causes him to lower his prices, and thus enables the public to...his goods in expectation of a rise. For doing this, corn-dealers in particular are often exposed to odium, as if they were the cause of the scarcity; while... | |
| Richard Whately - Economics - 1847 - 348 pages
...the extent of his dealings, and the prices at which he buys and sells. An abundant supply causes him to lower his prices, and thus enables the public to...his goods in expectation of a rise. For doing this, corn-dealers in partiOdium to cular are otten exposed to odium, as it wf,,idi Cornthey were the cause... | |
| Richard Whately (abp. of Dublin.) - 1847 - 50 pages
...the extent of his dealings, and the prices at which he buys and sells. An abundant supply causes him to lower his prices, and thus enables the public to...goods in expectation of a rise. " For doing this, corn-dealers in particular are often exposed to odium, as if they were the cause of the scarcity ;... | |
| William Neilson Hancock - Agriculture - 1850 - 218 pages
...the extent of his dealings, and the prices at which he buys and sells. An abundant supply causes him to lower his prices, and thus enables the public to...undersold; and, on the other hand, an actual or apprehended scarcify, causes him to demand a higher price, or to keep back his goods in expectation of a rise."... | |
| Joseph Curtis Platt, George Lillie Craik - London (England) - 1851 - 860 pages
...and sells. An abundant supply causes him to lower his prices, and thus enables the public to 6njoy that abundance, while he is guided only by the apprehension...his goods in expectation of a rise. For doing this, corn-dealers in particular are often exposed to odium, as if they were the cause of the scarcity; while... | |
| Richard Whately - Civilization - 1855 - 396 pages
...the extent of his dealings, and the prices at which he buys and sells. An abundant supply causes him to lower his prices, and thus enables the Public to...his goods in expectation of a rise. For doing this, corn-dealers in particular are ° ' l Odium to often exposed to odium, as if they were the cause wflich... | |
| Francis Bowen - Business & Economics - 1856 - 588 pages
...the extent of his dealings and the prices at which he buys and sells. An abundant supply causes him to lower his prices, and thus enables the public to...guided only by the apprehension of being undersold. On the other hand, an actual or apprehended scarcity causes him to demand a higher price, or to keep... | |
| George Dodd - Food supply - 1856 - 568 pages
...prices at which he buys and sells. An abundant supply causes him to lower his prices, and thus enable the public to enjoy that abundance ; while he is guided only by the apprehension of being undersold." * The mournful episode in the Crimea in 1854-5 illustrated this reasoning in an inverse way. The people... | |
| Francis Bowen - Economics - 1859 - 576 pages
...the extent of his dealings and the prices at which he buys and sells. An abundant supply causes him to lower his prices, and thus enables the public to...guided only by the apprehension of being undersold. On the other hand, an actual or apprehended scarcity causes him to demand a higher price, or to keep... | |
| Francis Bowen - Economics - 1859 - 586 pages
...the extent of his dealings and the prices at which he buys and sells. An abundant supply causes him to lower his prices, and thus enables the public to...guided only by the apprehension of being undersold. On the other hand, an actual or apprehended scarcity causes him to demand a higher price, or to keep... | |
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