 Most of the statutes, or acts, edicts, arrets, and placarts of parliaments, princes, and states, for regulating, directing, or restraining of trade, have, we think, been either political blunders, or jobs obtained by artful men for private advantage,...  The Scots Magazine - Page 2071781Full view - About this book
 | Ross B. Emmett - Business & Economics - 2002 - 360 pages
...mean conceptions thereof. . . .70 Most of the statutes . . . for regulating, directing, or restraining of trade have, we think, been either political blunders,...obtained by artful men, for private advantage, under pretense of public good.71 Conflicting counsel was offered as to how to solve this familiar dilemma... | |
 | Timothy Flint - Mississippi River Valley - 1830 - 716 pages
...placards of parliament, princes and states for regulating, directing and restraining of trade, have, wo think, been either political blunders, or jobs obtained...advantage under pretence of public good. When Colbert assembled some wise old merchants of France, and desired their advice and opinion, how he could serve,... | |
 | United States - 1911 - 972 pages
...edicts, arrets, and placarts of Parliament, princes, and states for regulating, directing, or restraining of trade have, we think, been either political blunders...obtained by artful men for private advantage under pretense of public good. When Colbert assembled some wise old merchants of France and desired their... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Alfred Howard - 1834 - 206 pages
...arrests and placarts of parliaments, princes, and states, for regulating, directing, or restraining of trade, have, we think, been either political blunders,...jobs obtained by artful men for private advantage, un Jer pretence of public good. When Colbert assembled some of the wise old merchants of France, and... | |
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