tegwick
2d1282a61e
Restructure entity storage from per-chapter subdirectories to a flat
canonical set in output/entities/. Each entity exists as a single file;
duplicates across chapters are detected by slug collision and skipped
(first occurrence wins). Chapter views use {{ include }} transclusion
to reference shared entity files.
Add @{existing_entities} macro to extract-entities template so the LLM
knows which entities already exist and focuses on genuinely new ones.
Refactor _call_llm() from _execute_llm() for callers that handle their
own file I/O. 41 unique entities from 4 chapters (2 duplicates removed).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Common Stock
Definition
The aggregate pool of goods and services created when individuals bring their diverse specialised products together through exchange. Smith argues that among humans, unlike animals, different talents are made useful to one another because their products can be "brought, as it were, into a common stock, where every man may purchase whatever part of the produce of other men's talents he has occasion for." This common stock is the emergent result of widespread exchange among specialised producers.
Source Chapter
Book I, Chapter 2: "Of the Principle which gives Occasion to the Division of Labour"
Context
Appears in the chapter's concluding argument comparing humans and animals. While a mastiff cannot benefit from a greyhound's speed due to lack of exchange, humans can pool their different abilities through trade, making all talents contribute to the general welfare.
Economic Domain
Exchange