Adam Smith — "The greatest and most important branch of the commerce of every nation, is that …"

The greatest and most important branch of the commerce of every nation, is that which is carried on between the inhabitants of the town and those of the country. The one furnishes the other with raw materials, which it works up into manufactured articles, and returns to the other, to be again exchanged for more raw materials, and other necessaries of life.
Adam Smith — Adam Smith Early Modern · Wealth of Nations, capitalism

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The Wealth of Nations, Book III, Chapter I

Date: 1776

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