Posted by
cavalier973 on Tuesday, July 21, 2009 11:51:59 PM
Well, at least some of them did. Bastiat is one such gentleman, and here's one of his books, online: http://www.econlib.org/library/Bastiat/basSoph.html
Here's an excerpt:
"There is a fundamental antagonism between the seller and the buyer. The former wants the goods on the market to be scarce, in short supply, and expensive. The latter wants them abundant, in plentiful supply, and cheap. Our laws, which should at least be neutral, take the side of the seller against the buyer, of the producer against the consumer, of high prices against low prices, of scarcity against abundance. They operate, if not intentionally, at least logically, on the assumption that a nation is rich when it is lacking in everything."