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Commercial Development Sequence Inversion

Definition

The observation that in most of Europe, commerce and manufactures preceded and caused agricultural improvement, contrary to the natural order where agriculture should develop first, making this development both slow and uncertain compared to colonies where agriculture comes first.

Source Chapter

Book III, Chapter 4

Context

Smith notes this inversion explains why European agricultural development