higgling

Between the two what Adam Smith calls the higgling of the market settles it.

Lombard Street : a description of the money market Walter Bagehot 1851

It is not possible for the individual buyer to ascertain just how much social labor is contained in a coat or a table, but their values are fixed by the competition and higgling which is the law of capitalism.

The Common Sense of Socialism A Series of Letters Addressed to Jonathan Edwards, of Pittsburg John Spargo 1921

How far a man has any right to be more lucky and hence more venerable than his neighbours, is a point that always has been, and always will be, settled proximately by a kind of higgling and haggling of the market, and ultimately by brute force; but however this may be, it stands to reason that no man should be allowed to be unlucky to more than a very moderate extent.”

Erewhon 2003

How far a man has any right to be more lucky and hence more venerable than his neighbours, is a point that always has been, and always will be, settled proximately by a kind of higgling and haggling of the market, and ultimately by brute force; but however this may be, it stands to reason that no man should be allowed to be unlucky to more than a very moderate extent. "

Erewhon; or, Over the range 1910

How far a man has any right to be more lucky and hence more venerable than his neighbours, is a point that always has been, and always will be, settled proximately by a kind of higgling and haggling of the market, and ultimately by brute force; but however this may be, it stands to reason that no man should be allowed to be unlucky to more than a very moderate extent. "

Erewhon Samuel Butler 1868

The executive who leaves or threatens to leave his job for a higher-paying one, or the combination of workers striking or threatening to strike, or the employer moving or threatening to move his factory to a place where labor is cheaper, are all engaged in this “higgling and bargaining of the market.”

A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2009

The executive who leaves or threatens to leave his job for a higher-paying one, or the combination of workers striking or threatening to strike, or the employer moving or threatening to move his factory to a place where labor is cheaper, are all engaged in this “higgling and bargaining of the market.”

A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2009

And both Max and Jackie had heard the story behind the "Wall of Keys" wherein their mom walked off with 100 antique clés -- along with the unusual board they were nailed to — after haggling and higgling with the brocante dealer.

Brocante / Antiques 2010

The value of labor is adjusted “not by any accurate measure, but by the higgling and bargaining of the market.”

A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2009

The value of labor is adjusted “not by any accurate measure, but by the higgling and bargaining of the market.”

A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2009