http://archive.mises.org/14841/lord-townshend-on-trade-and-morality/ Proceeding Ever More Boldly Against Evil Fri, 24 May 2013 20:55:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://archive.mises.org/14841/lord-townshend-on-trade-and-morality/comment-page-1/#comment-742430 P.M.Lawrence Sun, 05 Dec 2010 15:10:44 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/?p=14841#comment-742430 Not just at the time; it still is, apart from in specialised terms like “corn flakes” or US media offerings, brought in from the USA. The thing is, maize simply doesn’t grow properly that far north (it’s a length of day thing, not a climate one), so there isn’t any physical commodity there to provide a referent for corn in any other sense than the original sense.

]]> http://archive.mises.org/14841/lord-townshend-on-trade-and-morality/comment-page-1/#comment-741946 William Fri, 03 Dec 2010 01:24:39 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/?p=14841#comment-741946 It should be noted that “corn” at the time in England was a general term for all grains, not just corn as Americans know it today.

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