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Re:Pay toilets and NYT: a free market microcosm by SamBam on Monday March 08, 2021 @09:25PM (#26394676)
> One of the top 10 principles of economics is, don't silence prices in order to transfer incomes.

My Google-fu can't find this dictum anywhere. Is it usually said in some other form?

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Re:Pay toilets and NYT: a free market microcosm by willdearden on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @12:33AM (#26395738)
Probably comes from the first and second theorems of welfare economics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorems_of_welfar...

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