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# Transportation Cost Differential
## Definition
The significant difference in expense between various modes of transportation, particularly between water-carriage and land-carriage. This differential determines which goods can be profitably traded over different distances and thus shapes market extent and specialisation patterns.
## Source Chapter
Book I, Chapter 3
## Context
Smith provides detailed calculations showing that land-carriage of two hundred tons requires the maintenance of a hundred men for three weeks and four hundred horses, while water-carriage requires only six or eight men and a ship, demonstrating how transportation costs determine market feasibility.
## Economic Domain
Exchange
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