Note 1553 — Chapter XVI
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Ibid., 715, 716 (see a discourse upon the extreme dearth in France and upon the means to remedy it, in Arch. cur., VI, 423). The dearness of all things, according to the writer, probably Bodin, is the result of the excessive luxury which prevails among the higher classes and the combination made by the merchants to raise prices. He proposes the establishment of public granaries and that the government price be made obligatory for all dealers.