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# Natural Price as Central Price

## Definition

The concept of natural price as the equilibrium or central point toward which market prices continually gravitate, though occasionally suspended above or forced below by various accidents or regulations.

## Source Chapter

Book I, Chapter 7

## Context

Explicitly described as "the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravitating."

## Economic Domain

Exchange

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