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《What did, after all, East India Company have to do with any of these ideas?》

What if Smith's base economic assumptions were wrong?

Was breaking the Company's Indian monopoly disastrous for China? Did China have to be forced into trucking and bartering?

What if we don't all have a propensity to truck and barter, and many of us have to be violently coerced into contributing to this fetishistic GDP totem you've invented based on false assumptions about my nature?

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Excellent review. Do you know if Hume had any influence of Smith's approach to political economy?

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