“When war becomes a trade, it benefits, like all other trades, from the division of labour.”

— Jean-Baptiste Say

Source: A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition) (1832), Book III, On Consumption, Chapter VI, Section II, p. 429

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French economist and businessman 1767–1832

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