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Nations grow prosperous at each other's expense; wherefore a woolen trade in Ireland necessarily spells English unemployment.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “Nations grow prosperous at each other's expense; wherefore a woolen trade in Ireland necessarily spells English…”
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Laski argues that nations often prosper at the expense of others, using the woolen trade as an example of economic consequences.
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