Mises Daily
Author:
Claude Frédéric Bastiat
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[Included in The Bastiat Collection (2011), this article appeared in Economic Sophisms (1845).] Let us inquire whether injustice is not done you by fixing legislatively the people from whom you are to purchase the things you have need of — bread, meat, linens, or cloth; and in dictating, if I may say so, the artificial scale of prices which you