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660 B
Subsistence of the Dealer
Definition
The dealer's own maintenance and livelihood, which must be provided for through the profit from selling goods, just as the dealer advances wages to workmen during production.
Source Chapter
Book I, Chapter 7
Context
Explained through the analogy that "as, while he is preparing and bringing the goods to market, he advances to his workmen their wages, or their subsistence; so he advances to himself, in the same manner, his own subsistence."
Economic Domain
Distribution