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# Merchant-Country Gentleman Transition
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## Definition
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The social and economic phenomenon where successful urban merchants acquire
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rural estates and become country landowners, bringing with them commercial
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habits of profitable investment, order, economy, and attention that make them
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particularly effective improvers of agricultural land compared to traditional
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country gentlemen.
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## Source Chapter
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Book III, Chapter 4
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## Context
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Smith's second mechanism explaining how commerce improves the country, noting
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that merchants accustomed to profitable projects are bolder and more effective
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land improvers than traditional country gentlemen who employ capital mainly in
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expense rather than investment.
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## Economic Domain
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Distribution
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