Concept

Commerce

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large-scale organized system related to the exchange of goods and services

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Merchants, on the contrary, beget industry, by serving as canals to convey it through every corner of the state; and at the same time, by their frugality, they acquire great power over that industry, and collect a large property in the labour and commodities which they are the chief instruments in producing. There is no other profession, therefore, except merchandise, which can make the moneyed interest…
David Hume, Hume's Political Discourses
Names Commerce several times; opens on Commerce.
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Gradually, the production of commodities became the rule. This mode of production for exchange, not for home consumption, necessarily passes the products on from hand to hand. The producer gives his product away in exchange. He does no longer know what becomes of it.
Friedrich Engels, The origin of the family, private property, and the state
States what Commerce is.
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Commerce is now, what war once was, the principal source of this contact. Such communication has always been, and is peculiarly in the present age, one of the primary sources of progress.
John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy
Names Commerce several times; states what Commerce is.
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