The Cost of Competition An Effort At the Understanding of Familiar Facts
The Cost of Competition An Effort At the Understanding of Familiar Facts
Sidney a Sidney Armor Reeve
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And yet, if we were to trace down and measure the magnitude of the alterations in demand (the increment of purchasing-power released by the govern- ment's war-expenditures) or in the altered faith in our- selves which aroused the nation from its supine lethargy, — -if we should compare these economic and ethical magni- tudes with those now under discussion — we should find them utterly insignificant. Once, for instance, during an investigation of the price of gas in the city of Cincinnati, it w...as testified by a gentle- man well known throughout the State and possessing sub- stantial interests in gas-properties, during examination under oath, that if he should ever become acquainted with any improvement in the art of making gas which, beyond all doubt, would reduce the cost of manufacture by five cents per thousand cubic feet, he would pay a million dol- lars for it without the slightest hesitation. This was his estimate, not of the total value of such an improvement to the community, but of the portion of it which he might expect, easily and without any question, to reserve to him- self.
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