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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Some tanning and marking due to age. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Meanwhile the economic situation is deplorable. Even basic necessities have reached exorbitant prices. In fact everything except bread is now approximately twenty times as expensive. But restaurant prices have not gone up to the same extent: “In the restaurants you can eat just as well for 50 or 60 livres as you used to for 5 or 6 and the traiteurs who used to charge 30 to 40 sous let you off today for 15 livres (excluding bread).’ Why this dis- crepancy? Quite simply: competition. Each restaurateur is doing his best to attract business by providing the cheapest meal and he makes do with a narrow margin of profit to be compensated for by the large number of customers. From this Saint-Aubin infers the superiority of a liberal economy at the very moment when the abuses of the speculators and ever-increasing inflation threaten to bring about an authoritarian control of trade and a police system which raises the ugly spectre of the denunciations and indictments of the ancien r?gime. Worthy indeed are the restaurants testifying to the liberty (SP)