But thehiggling cannot touch the underlying attitudes.
This is the process known in economic writing since Adam Smith as "the higgling and bargaining of the market.
In a large market where this interval is supposed to be a vanishing quantity is there more or less higgling and bargaining than in a small market where the interval is admittedly perceptible?
The "higgling and bargaining of the market" has been accorded but scant attention by economists.
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The entire higgling crew laughed uproariously, and clapped their hands.
I took up my station by the open window, and looked into the familiar room, where the buyers were higgling over the various articles to be sold.
Premiums were fixed, not by computation from known facts or reasonable assumptions, but by guess and the higglingof the market.
Look at that index, you would sometimes think you were not in the Senate of a great nation, but in a board of brokers, angry and higgling about stocks.
By the sides of these carts the principal business of the fair appeared to be going on—there stood the owners male and female, higgling with Llangollen men and women, who came to buy.
In this higgling of the market it is absolutely necessary that buyers and sellers have essential freedom of choice and fairly equal information.
Every northerner knows that slaveholders are proverbial for lavish expenditures, never higgling about the price of a gratification.
Of the industrial employments, in the stricter sense, it may be said, on the other hand, that they begin and end outside the higgling of the market.
These activities begin and end within what may broadly be called "the higgling of the market.
The residuum with which we fret and worry ourselves is a mere matter of detail, as the higgling and haggling of the market, which is not over the bulk of the price, but over the last halfpenny.
It is plain, that under a system of fixed prices we can more certainly discover what the equitable price is, than in the heat of higgling which besides consumes a great deal of precious time.
Miss Foote was as much annoyed as amused with his higgling ways, all in zeal for her interests.
In particular cases, competitive prices in this country are arrived at by the higgling of the market, which depends on buyers' and sellers' judgment of the demand and supply of the commodity (e.
Such higgling would determine only the value of wheat.
It is quite incorrect to say, as has been sometimes said, that the mediæval just price was in no way different from the competition price of to-day which is arrived at by the higgling of the market.
Actually you shall find the people higgling with the dealer over prices.
After all, all the precedents are on the side of an attempt to enforce a standard which shall be independent of the result which might be reached by higgling between this landlord and that tenant.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "higgling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
