maximum on prices (Law of the Maximum)
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The maximum on prices, or Law of the Maximum, was a French Revolutionary policy that imposed legal limits on the prices of essential goods to curb inflation and protect consumers during the economic turmoil of the 1790s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Law of the General Maximum | 1 |
| maximum on prices (Law of the Maximum) canonical | 1 |
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Target entity: maximum on prices (Law of the Maximum) Context triple: [French National Convention, implemented, maximum on prices (Law of the Maximum)]
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Hotelling’s lemma
Hotelling’s lemma is a result in microeconomics that links a firm’s profit function to its supply and factor demand functions via partial derivatives.
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Hotelling’s law
Hotelling’s law is an economic principle that explains why competing businesses or political candidates tend to cluster together by choosing similar locations or positions to maximize their share of consumers or voters.
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Tarifit
Tarifit is a Northern Berber language spoken primarily by the Riffian people in the Rif region of northern Morocco.
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The Price
The Price is a 1968 play by American dramatist Arthur Miller that explores family conflict, memory, and the cost of choices through the story of two estranged brothers dividing their late father's possessions.
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Lusser's law
Lusser's law is a reliability engineering principle that states the overall reliability of a system is the product of the reliabilities of its individual components, highlighting how system reliability decreases as more components are added in series.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: maximum on prices (Law of the Maximum) Target entity description: The maximum on prices, or Law of the Maximum, was a French Revolutionary policy that imposed legal limits on the prices of essential goods to curb inflation and protect consumers during the economic turmoil of the 1790s.
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A.
Hotelling’s lemma
Hotelling’s lemma is a result in microeconomics that links a firm’s profit function to its supply and factor demand functions via partial derivatives.
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B.
Hotelling’s law
Hotelling’s law is an economic principle that explains why competing businesses or political candidates tend to cluster together by choosing similar locations or positions to maximize their share of consumers or voters.
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C.
Tarifit
Tarifit is a Northern Berber language spoken primarily by the Riffian people in the Rif region of northern Morocco.
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D.
The Price
The Price is a 1968 play by American dramatist Arthur Miller that explores family conflict, memory, and the cost of choices through the story of two estranged brothers dividing their late father's possessions.
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E.
Lusser's law
Lusser's law is a reliability engineering principle that states the overall reliability of a system is the product of the reliabilities of its individual components, highlighting how system reliability decreases as more components are added in series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French Revolutionary law
ⓘ
consumer protection measure ⓘ economic regulation ⓘ price control policy ⓘ |
| aimedAt |
poor consumers
ⓘ
urban working classes ⓘ |
| alternateName |
Law of the Maximum
ⓘ
Maximum des prix ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
essential goods
ⓘ
foodstuffs ⓘ fuel ⓘ wages ⓘ |
| consequence |
black market activity
ⓘ
shortages of goods ⓘ tension between urban and rural populations ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| economicPolicyType |
direct market intervention
ⓘ
price ceiling ⓘ |
| enforcedBy |
local authorities
ⓘ
revolutionary committees ⓘ |
| field |
economic history
ⓘ
legal history ⓘ political history ⓘ |
| follows | economic turmoil of the 1790s ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | French ⓘ |
| hasPurpose |
controlling wartime economy
ⓘ
curbing inflation ⓘ ensuring affordable basic necessities ⓘ protecting consumers ⓘ |
| historicalContext |
Reign of Terror
ⓘ
War of the First Coalition ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | French Revolution ⓘ |
| implementedBy | French National Convention ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | revolutionary egalitarian ideals ⓘ |
| legalForm | decree ⓘ |
| opposedBy |
Girondins
ⓘ
merchants ⓘ rural producers ⓘ |
| partOf |
French monetary reform of 1795
ⓘ
surface form:
French Revolutionary economic policy
|
| regulates |
hoarding
ⓘ
maximum legal prices ⓘ profit margins ⓘ speculation ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
maximum on prices (Law of the Maximum)
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Law of the General Maximum
Law of the Minimum on Wages ⓘ |
| supportedBy |
Montagnard highland peoples
ⓘ
surface form:
Montagnards
sans-culottes ⓘ |
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Subject: maximum on prices (Law of the Maximum) Description of subject: The maximum on prices, or Law of the Maximum, was a French Revolutionary policy that imposed legal limits on the prices of essential goods to curb inflation and protect consumers during the economic turmoil of the 1790s.
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