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# Economic System Learning Process

## Definition

The ways in which societies and individuals acquire knowledge and understanding about economic arrangements, including the processes through which experience, observation, and education contribute to the development and improvement of economic systems.

## Source Chapter

Book IV, Chapter 0

## Context

Smith's approach to explaining different systems implies the importance of learning processes in economic arrangements and their role in advancing understanding and improving economic practice.

## Economic Domain

General Theory

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