Название: Economic Sophisms
Автор: Frederic Bastiat
Издательство: Public Domain
Жанр: Зарубежная классика
isbn: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44145
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The first series of the Sophismes Économiques appeared in the end of 1845; the second series in 1848. – Editor.
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The author has modified somewhat the terms of this proposition in a posterior work. – See HarmoniesÉconomiques, chapter xi. – Editor.
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The first series of the Sophismes Économiques appeared in the end of 1845; the second series in 1848. – Editor.
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The author has modified somewhat the terms of this proposition in a posterior work. – See
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We have not in French a substantive to express the idea opposed to that of dearness (cheapness). It is somewhat remarkable that the popular instinct expresses the idea by this periphrase,
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See post, ch. xiv. of second series of
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For this reason, and for the sake of conciseness, the reader will pardon us for designating this system in the sequel by the name of
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It is fair to M. d'Argout to say that he put this language in the mouth of the adversaries of beet-root culture. But he adopts it formally, and sanctions it besides, by the law which it was employed to justify.
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Supposing that 48,000 or 50,000 hectares were sufficient to supply the present consumption, it would require 150,000
for triple that consumption, which M. d'Argout admits as possible. Moreover, if beet-root entered into a six years'
rotation of crops, it would occupy successively 900,000
hectares, or 1-38th of the arable land.
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See on the same subject,
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M. le Vicomte de Romanet.
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Matthieu le Dombasle.
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The author, here and elsewhere, uses the French word
English economists employ the term
Translator,
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It is true that labour does not receive a uniform remuneration. It may be more or less intense, dangerous, skilled, etc. Competition settles the usual or current price in each department – and this is the fluctuating price of which I speak.
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The theory sketched in this chapter, is the same which, four years afterwards, was developed in the
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See Harmonies Économiques, ch. xvii.