Frédéric Bastiat：Economic Sophisms, Excerpt 164

In the same way, restriction, while diminishing the abundance of things, may raise their price to such an extent that each party shall be, _pecuniarily speaking_, as rich as before. But to set down in an inventory three measures of corn at 20s., or four measures at 15s., because the result is still sixty shillings,--would this, I ask, come to the same thing with reference to the satisfaction of men's wants?

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