| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Around A.D. 100, Plutarch maintained that international commerce brought about cooperation and friendship and that the cessation of commercial exchange would cause the life of man to be "savage and destitute.1 This line of reasoning became particularly prominent in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with the writings of philosophers such as Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham, Immanuel Kant, Thomas
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