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弗雷德里克·巴斯夏:经济诡辩·摘录 142

弗雷德里克·巴斯夏《经济诡辩》· Economic Sophisms · 投资

Now, among these _obstacles_ there is one which we have ourselves set up, and at no little cost, too, between Brussels and Paris. There are men who lie in ambuscade along the frontier, armed to the teeth, and whose business it is to throw _difficulties_ in the way of transporting merchandise from the one country to the other. They are called Customhouse officers, and they act in precisely the same way as ruts and bad roads. They retard, they trammel commerce, they augment the difference we have remarked between the price paid by the consumer and the price received by the producer--that very difference, the reduction of which, as far as possible, forms the subject of our problem.

出处: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44145
定位:Excerpt 142 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

白话

在这些障碍中,有一个是我们自己在布鲁塞尔和巴黎之间设立的,而且花费不小。有些人埋伏在边境,全副武装,他们的任务就是给两国之间的商品运输制造困难。他们叫海关官员,其行为方式与车辙和坏路一模一样:拖延、阻碍商业,扩大我们注意到的消费者支付价格与生产者得到价格之间的差额——而尽可能缩小这个差额,正是我们要解决的问题。

上下文

巴斯夏把海关官员比作坏路和车辙,讽刺关税壁垒人为抬高商品价格,与当时追求降低运费的潮流背道而驰。

今日一问

你身边有哪些“海关官员”式的人为障碍,正在悄悄抬高你支付的价格?

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