But it is not the interest of merchants and manufacturers, the great inventors of all these expedients, that the home market should be overstocked with their goods; an event which a bounty upon production might sometimes occasion.
The market is here overstocked both with commodities and with labour.
The market would be so much understocked with labour in the one case, and so much overstocked in the other, as would soon force back its price to that proper rate which the circumstances of the society required.
Had every particular banking company always understood and attended to its own particular interest, the circulation never could have been overstocked with paper money.
But every particular banking company has not always understood or attended to its own particular interest, and the circulation has frequently been overstocked with paper money.
By the one institution, they secured to themselves the monopoly of the home market, and by the other they endeavoured to prevent that market from ever being overstocked with their commodity.
Such fluctuations affect both the value and the rate, either of wages or of profit, according as the market happens to be either overstocked or understocked with commodities or with labour, with work done, or with work to be done.
Without an overstocked world, with individual variations, some progressive, some retrograde, there could be no natural selection, no survival of the fittest.
Peabody isn't overstocked with brains, though he does come from Boston," said Miles.
Beauty was but skin deep, as Mrs. Brown was practical enough to admit, and she was not overstocked with that attractive quality herself.
The price offered was ridiculously low, even for this season of low figures due to the fact that many overstocked ranches were throwing their beef-cattle and range horses on the market.
The profession is lamentably overstocked with mediocrities, lacking enthusiasm and vigour, drifting more and more hopelessly from one post to another.
London is already overstocked and the better openings at the present time are to be found in the Provinces, in Scotland and the Colonies.
The range into which you are walking your sheep is already overstocked with cattle and horses, and we are going to suffer, for you know very well cattle will not follow sheep.
New England was probably overstockedwith men of strong minds and assertive dispositions.
I do not believe that there is a single square mile in this whole country, which is overstocked with bees, unless it is one so unsuitable for bee-keeping as to make it unprofitable to attempt it at all.
Some imagine that newly settled countries are most favorable for the labors of the bee: others, that we have overstocked our farms, so that the bees cannot find a sufficient supply of food.
But a worse calamity would have overtaken us; for it is easily seen, that, in the course of a few centuries, our planet would be overstocked with inhabitants.
This market has been greatly overstocked with English manufactures, in consequence of the sanguine speculations to which our merchants were incited by the late emigration.
Observe the cloudy expression on the merchant's countenance, as he tells her that he's overstocked with butter; that the market is "way down.
The land is overstocked with people; but those in the country are very miserable, whilst the nobles are extremely opulent and delight in luxury.
But still they did not grasp the magnitude of the reverse; on all previous occasions the enemy had been either driven back, or bought off with presents from the overstocked treasury of the kings.
I didn’t know then that the best kindness for a strugglin’ holder there, was to hunt him out of the overstocked land to this place, or America, or the West Indies.
The state of Vermont is becoming overstocked with deer, and the females have in some counties (not in all), become so tame and destructive in orchards, gardens and farm crops as to constitute a great annoyance.
S Parker, of Orleans County, says his county is not overstocked with deer, and he favors a special act for his county, to protect females.
He soon overstocked the kingdom so with copper money, that persons were obliged to receive large sums in it; for the officers of the crown were industrious dispensers of it, for which he allowed them a premium.
Knox sold his patent to Colonel Roger Moore, who overstocked the country with his coins to such an extent that the currency became undervalued.
