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When a large part of the market for British textiles was in the colonies, a fall in the price of tea and cocoa caused unemployment in Lancashire.
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It is much easier to organize control over one industry serving many markets than over one market served by the products of several industries.
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But once we bring historical time into the argument, it is not so easy to present the free play of the market as an ideal mechanism for maximizing welfare and securing social justice.
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But, as soon as speculators become an important influence in the market, their business is to speculate on each others behaviour.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work—that goes on, it adds up.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Born:
October 31, 1903
Died:
August 5, 1983
(aged 79)
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