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**dHXaE2h9** · 08-11-2012, 05:09 PM

"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary."

—Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)

08-11-2012, 05:09 PM	#1
dHXaE2h9 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 388 Senior Member	Collusion "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary." —Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)
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