Quotes About Trade

More than any other issue, economists have kind of been boosters for trade.

Trade is a source of strength and an engine of growth for America.

I want to stay in the European Union which is the best trade deal we could possibly have, but we need to call out racism.

It is in our nations' interests to see a strong European Union with a growing economy, competitive on the world market.

That's the positive aspect of trade I suppose. The world gets stirred up together. That's about as much as I have to say for it.

and every Wednesday the perfumed young lady slips me a hundred-crown note to leave her alone with the convict. And by Thursday the hundred crowns are already gone in so much beer. And when the visiting hour is over, the young lady comes out with the stink of jail in her elegant clothes; and the prisoner goes back to his cell with the lady's perfume in his jailbird's suit. And I'm left with the smell of beer. Life is nothing but trading smells.

Perché ogni scelta ha un rovescio cioè una rinuncia, e così non c'è differenza tra l'atto di scegliere e l'atto di rinunciare.

Las ciudades son un conjunto de muchas cosas: memorias, deseos, signos de un lenguaje; son lugares de trueque, como explican todos los libros de historia de la economía, pero estos trueques no lo son sólo de mercancías, son también trueques de palabras, de deseos, de recuerdos.

Waarom zou iemand die handel drijft in boeken niet lijken op degene die zich met wijn bezighoudt? Ook voor wijn was er iets subliems nodig geweest dat de handel vooraf was gegaan en had geschapen: de wijnstok en de zon.

The distinction between Trade and Warfare is seen only by those who have no experience of either.? -Heironymo Sondar, House Sondar

The distinction between trade and warfare is seen only by those who have no experience of either.

the factory-owners and traders, grew stronger as a result of the new trade frontiers in America, Africa and the Far East.

Industrialization finally drove the West out of a mercantile economy and into a capitalist one. Before industrialization, the most important factor in determining the wealth of a country was its volume of trade, or exports minus imports. After industrialization, the value of what a country could produce became more important.

In the late 1830s, China stepped up its efforts to stop the trade in opium and this led to the Opium Wars of 1839–42 and 1856–60.

At the end of the second Opium War (in which it was joined by France), Britain forced the Chinese to fully legalize both the trade in opium and the shipment of Chinese indentured labourers to the Americas (where they worked as slaves in all but name).

The Netherlands is a small nation but its contribution to the development of capitalism is immense.

Amsterdam itself was the greatest trade city in Europe up to the Industrial Revolution, and was home to the first stock exchange and insurance company. The Netherlands is considered by many historians to be the first truly capitalist nation in the world.

The Dutch East India Company, formed in 1602, was one of the first multi-national companies.

The rise in trade led to expansionism, and any European power that could afford it would send off ships, hoping to find new territory that "no one" (i.e. no other European) had discovered yet. Controlling land overseas gave these Europeans access to resources that could be exploited, often at the cost of the local inhabitants.

While a powerful, centralized monarchy created the first great European empires, it held back the development of a strong and independent merchant class, and that held back private enterprise. As a result, capitalism did not grow out of the empires of Spain and Portugal, but out of the disadvantaged newcomers to the race for international trade, and especially England and the Netherlands.

Smith believed that the best way to promote trade was to trust to the self-interest and inventiveness of individual traders.

The self-correcting nature of the market led Smith to think that we could trust the market to provide what was needed – and the principal obstacle to the market trading freely and fulfilling our needs was government intervention.

Ni la convergencia económica ni la homogeneización de preferencias son una consecuencia inevitable de la globalización.

la experiencia de otros países evidencia que los bajos niveles de exportación y diversificación no son inexorables. Cambios considerables —y creíbles— en los incentivos a la exportación pueden generar reacciones importantes, aun cuando las exportaciones se limiten a unos cuantos cultivos tradicionales. Antes de su despegue comercial de principios de la década de los sesenta, Taiwán exportaba azúcar, arroz y poco más.