The State Prophecy, and Its Importation of Goods

The despotic holds the following in common with the primitive machine, says Taylor. The dread of decoded floes, flows of production, but also mercantile floes of exchange and commerce that might escape state monopoly. When etian balas asked why capitalism wasn't born in china in the thirteenth century, the answer was a state which closed the mines as soon as the reserves of metal were just sufficient. This is really interesting to me, the chinese deciding to close the mines. It's kind of an all or nothing, m right?