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# Commercial Development Sequence Inversion
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## Definition
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The observation that in most of Europe, commerce and manufactures preceded and
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caused agricultural improvement, contrary to the natural order where agriculture
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should develop first, making this development both slow and uncertain compared
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to colonies where agriculture comes first.
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## Source Chapter
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Book III, Chapter 4
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## Context
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Smith notes this inversion explains why European agricultural development
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