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Henry Clark on The Enlightenments

The Great Antidote

CHAPTER

Law and Good Government - The Key to Economic Growth

Adam smith thought that there were at least two major things that happened all the way back in the twelfth and thirteenth century that did as much to explain modern prosperity as anything that happened after 14 92. The emergence of towns, cities, communes, they were often called in continental europe. And secondly, a anges in property law landed a property law. So't med just say a word about each so the e the flowering of different towns and cities - walled cities when they were first built.

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