“In every country it always is and must be the interest of the great body of the people to buy whatever they want of those who sell it cheapest. The proposition is so very manifest that it seems ridiculous to take any pains to prove it; nor could it ever have been called in question had not the interested sophistry of merchants and manufacturers confounded the common sense of mankind. Their interest is, in this respect, directly opposite to that of the great body of the people.”

— Adam Smith

Source: (1776), Book IV, Chapter III, Part II, p. 531.

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Scottish moral philosopher and political economist 1723–1790

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