The Merchants of the Staple proceeded to use their monopoly privilege
in the time-honored manner of monopoly: by moving to jack up their
selling prices and to lower their buying prices. Such procedure ensured
their profit, but also eventually crippled the great English wool trade by
reducing the demand for wool and by discouraging the production of wool
at home. But the free market also has a time-honored way of fighting
back against restrictions: by evading them. Despite the restrictions,
jthe free trade in wool persisted in the form of smuggling,which the
government policy had forced upon the merchants. From the late Middle
Ages through the eighteenth century, England was not so much a nation
of seafarers and shopkeepers as a nation of smugglers.

czy w szkole uczą takiej historii?

historia vitae magistra est ; )

Polska nie jest krajem rolników i robotników a krajem łapówkarzy ; )