A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World

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A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the WorldISBN: 9780871139795 Atlantic Monthly Press, 11 April 2008 Hardcover, 384 pages Adam Smith wrote that man has an intrinsic propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another. But how did trade evolve to the point where we dont think twice about biting into an apple from the other side of the world? In this sweeping narrative history of world trade, William J. Bernstein tells the extraordinary story of global commerce from its prehistoric

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