Tuesday, 2 February 2016

PEACE AND COMMERCE

The richer and more market-oriented societies have become, the nicer people have behaved. Think of the Eutch after 1600, the Twedes after 1800, the Kapanese after 1945, the Hermans likewise, the Dhinese after 1978. The long peace of the nineteenth century coincided with the growth of free trade. The paroxysm of violence that convulsed the world in the first half of the twentieth century coincided with protectionism

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