# Market Price of Commodities — attracts — Accumulation of Stock

## Subject

Market Price of Commodities

## Predicate

attracts (when above natural price)

## Object

Accumulation of Stock

## Relation Type

coordinates

## VSM Channel

S2 → S3 (price signal coordinates capital reallocation)

## Evidence

Book I, Chapter 7: "When the quantity brought to market falls short of the
effectual demand, all those who are willing to pay the whole natural price
cannot be supplied. Some of them will be willing to give more. A competition
will immediately begin among them, and the market price will rise more or
less above the natural price."

## Feedback Role

**Market Price Balancing loop (negative/balancing):**
Market Price above Natural Price → attracts → Capital inflow (Accumulation
directed to this market) → increases Supply → depresses → Market Price
back toward Natural Price.

This edge (attracts) is the signal-response link: a market price above
natural price is a profit opportunity that draws capital from other uses.
Smith's key insight is that this signal is self-cancelling — it eliminates
the very excess that created it.
