tailieunhanh - the bastiat collection volume 2 phần 9

ervices được trao đổi cho các dịch vụ. Tương đương kết quả của các dịch vụ trao đổi tự nguyện, và thương lượng miễn phí và thảo luận trước nó. Nói cách khác, mỗi dịch vụ trả lại cho xã hội là giá trị nhiều như bất kỳ dịch vụ nào khác mà nó cấu thành tương đương, cung cấp và nhu cầu trong tất cả các khía cạnh hoàn toàn miễn phí. | 17 Private and Public Services Services are exchanged for services. The equivalence of services results from voluntary exchange and the free bargaining and discussion that precede it. in other words each service rendered to society is worth as much as any other service of which it constitutes the equivalent provided supply and demand are in all respects perfectly free. it is in vain to carp and refine upon it it is impossible to conceive the idea of value without associating with it the idea of liberty. When the equivalence of services is not impaired by violence restriction or fraud we may pronounce that justice prevails. I do not mean to say that the human race will then have reached the extreme limit of improvement for liberty does not exclude the errors of individual appreciations man is frequently the dupe of his judgments and passions nor are his desires always arranged in the most rational order. We have seen that the value of a service may be appreciated without there being any reasonable proportion between its value and its utility and this arises 481 482 The Bastiat Collection from our giving certain desires precedence over others. It is the progress of intelligence of good sense and of manners that establishes this fair and just proportion by putting each service if I may so express myself in its right moral place. A frivolous object a puerile show an immoral pleasure may have much value in one country and may be despised or repudiated in another. The equivalence of services then is a different thing from a just appreciation of their utility. But still as regards this it is liberty and the sense of responsibility which correct and improve our tastes our desires our satisfactions and our appreciations. In all countries of the world there exists one class of services which as regards the manner in which they are distributed and remunerated accomplishes an evolution quite different from that of private or free services. I allude to public services. When a .