tegwick
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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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Productive Powers of Labour
Definition
The capacity of human labour to produce output, measured in terms of the quantity and quality of goods a given number of workers can produce within a given time. Smith argues that the division of labour is the primary cause of increases in productive power, and that differences in productive power explain differences in national wealth.
Source Chapter
Book I, Chapter 1: "Of the Division of Labour"
Context
Smith introduces productive powers as the dependent variable that the division of labour improves. He contrasts the output of an unskilled individual worker (one pin per day) with the output of a coordinated team under division of labour (4,800 pins per person per day) to demonstrate the scale of improvement.
Economic Domain
Production
Smith's Original Wording
"This great increase in the quantity of work, which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are capable of performing, is owing to three different circumstances."