infospace: process book-1-chapter-03

Extract entities, map to VSM, and synthesize analysis.
This commit is contained in:
2026-02-19 15:04:57 +01:00
parent df1fdf1842
commit c2e06c15d7
123 changed files with 20403 additions and 0 deletions

View File

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
# Water-Carriage
## Definition
Transportation of goods by water using ships and boats, which significantly reduces the cost and increases the speed of moving commodities compared to land-carriage. Water-carriage enables a much broader market extent by making distant trade economically feasible.
## Source Chapter
Book I, Chapter 3
## Context
Smith uses water-carriage as a key example to demonstrate how transportation technology affects market extent. He contrasts the efficiency of ships (two hundred tons carried by six or eight men) with land transport (the same quantity requiring fifty waggons, a hundred men, and four hundred horses), showing how water-carriage opens up extensive markets.
## Economic Domain
Exchange
---