Demand and supply are the opposite extremes of the beam, whence depend the scales of dearness and cheapness; the price is the point of equilibrium, where the momentum of the one ceases, and that of the other begins.

— Jean-Baptiste Say A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition) (1832)

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