29th July 2010

(Adam) Smith’s Observation

Adam Smith

People of the same trade seldom meet together even for merriment and diversion but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public to raise prices.

Source: The Wealth of Nations 1776

Continuing a famous metaphor of Smith’s, it could be said that ‘the invisible hand’ operates beneath the table as well as above it. For more about that hand, see Spencer’s Law.


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