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Adam Smith Predicted The Rise Of The Military-Industrial-Complex
Submitted by Westernerd on Sat, 2011-08-13 03:00
By criticizing England's Navigation Acts of 1651 - which gave a monopoly of colonial produce to the shopkeepers of England - Smith understood that empire depends on government and "shopkeepers" in each other's pockets.
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