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# Economic System Resistance Factor

## Definition

The obstacles, barriers, and opposing forces that impede changes and improvements in economic arrangements, including institutional inertia, vested interests, cultural resistance, and other factors that maintain existing systems despite their limitations.

## Source Chapter

Book IV, Chapter 0

## Context

Smith's discussion of different systems and their persistence implies the importance of understanding resistance factors in economic arrangements and their role in maintaining existing systems.

## Economic Domain

General Theory

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