“A river which runs and winds about in its bed will not flow with

　　double speed when the amount of its water is doubled.”

　　「如果河流的水量加倍，流速并不会因而加倍，

　　因为河床不是平整的，河道也不是笔直的。」

　　Richard Cantillon （Essai, Higgs's 1931 translation, p. 177）。

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　　Thomas Robert Malthus, it is universally known, opted for agricultural protection in the great Corn Law debates at the close of the Napoleonic Wars. He was the only major economist to do so and has been regarded ever since as something of an anomaly. This paper reports a finding that seems to r...

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