Conflict and Co-operation: A History of Trade

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Paul Seabright explores the evolution of global trade in goods, people and ideas.

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Paul Seabright's exploration of our trading past: Adam Smith and World War I

4 Extra Debut. Paul Seabright explores our trading past: Adam Smith's book The Wealth of Nations and the outbreak of World War I. From 2018.

Economist and author, Paul Seabright, begins a series that explores our trading story, from the earliest exchange networks in child-care and food, right up to the modern day. He discusses the links between trade and war, the different phases of globalization, and how the history of trade features major setbacks as well as extraordinary progress.

In this opening episode, Paul visits the Café Bibent in Toulouse to talk about the city's connections with two key moments in the history of trade: Adam Smith and his great book The Wealth of Nations, and the outbreak of the First World War.

Producer: Chris Ledgard.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2018.

Conflict and Co-operation: A History of Trade: Series 1

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