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🔹 It is very usual, in nations ignorant of the nature of commerce, to prohibit the exportation of commodities, and to preserve among themselves whatever they think valuable and useful. They do not consider that in this prohibition they act contrary to their intention.

It is well known to the learned, that the ancient laws of Athens rendered the exportation of figs criminal; that being supposed so excellent in Attica, that the Athenians deemed it too delicious for the palate of any foreigner. And in this ridiculous prohibition they were so much in earnest, that informers were thence called sycophants, from Greek words for figs (σῦκον) and discoverer (φαίνω).

To this day, in France, the exportation of corn is almost always prohibited; though nothing contributes more to the frequent famines so much distressing that fertile country.

[David Hume, An essay on the Balance of Trade, 1752] 🇬🇧

[The statue of David Hume in a Roman toga, Edinburgh] 🇬🇧

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🔹 It is very usual, in nations ignorant of the nature of commerce, to prohibit the exportation of commodities, and to preserve among themselves whatever they think valuable and useful. They do not consider that in this prohibition they act contrary to their intention.

It is well known to the learned, that the ancient laws of Athens rendered the exportation of figs criminal; that being supposed so excellent in Attica, that the Athenians deemed it too delicious for the palate of any foreigner. And in this ridiculous prohibition they were so much in earnest, that informers were thence called sycophants, from Greek words for figs (σῦκον) and discoverer (φαίνω).

To this day, in France, the exportation of corn is almost always prohibited; though nothing contributes more to the frequent famines so much distressing that fertile country.

[David Hume, An essay on the Balance of Trade, 1752] 🇬🇧

[The statue of David Hume in a Roman toga, Edinburgh] 🇬🇧

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