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A good deal of higgling about the price of the choicest bird had taken place between Billy Kirby and its owner before Natty and his companions rejoined the sportsmen It had, however, been settled at one shilling * a shot, which was the highest sum ever exacted, the black taking care to protect himself from losses, as much as possible, by the conditions of the sport.

The Discouerie of Witchcraft Wherein the Lewde Dealing of Witches and Witchmongers is Notablie Detected, the Knauerie of Coniurors, the Impietie of lnchantors, the Follie of Soothsaiers, the Impudent Falshood of Cousenors, the Infidelitie of Atheists, the Pestilent Practises of Pythonists, the Curiositie of Figurecasters, the Vanitie of Dreamers, the Beggerlie Art of Alcumystrie, the Abhomination of Idolatrie, the Horrible Art of Poisoning, the Vertue and Power of Naturall Magike, and all the Conueiances of Legierdemaine and higgling are Deciphered: and Many other Things Opened, Which Have Long Lien Hidden, Howbeit Verie Necessarie to be Knowne.

Within these varying modes of exchange, "enemies suffer theft, strangers tolerate higgling commercialism, and kin and neighbors expect fair and binding credit/ debt relations" (Peebles 2010, p.

companies by what Adam Smith calls the higgling of the market, but

One effect of organizing labor is that it changes the "higgling" (6) between the two sides from a static bargaining process to a dynamic game wherein the employer deals not with the individual worker in a single period but with the union in multiple periods.

Negative reciprocity is the attempt to get something for nothing for example in bargaining and higgling.

Economists Hosein and Franklin examine the relative size and contribution of the informal economy to the Caribbean region, and provide theoretical and empirical evidence that higgling is a response to market failure and price differentials.

Today's haggling comes from the higgling of yesteryear.

The market rate is not fixed for him by some self-acting instrument, but it is the result of bargaining between human beings--what Adam Smith calls 'the higgling of the market;' and those who do not 'higgle' will long continue to pay, even over a counter, more than the market price for their purchases.

The vehemence of his critiques of the Australian command mechanism was in many ways Hayekian in nature: 'the higgling of the market is a sanction more prompt, delicate and potent in its operation than any rewards or penalties that are within the slow reach of an over-burdened judge or commission' (1929, p.