Prior to the industrial revolution in the century of late eighteenth and early nineteenth which set fire to the capital-based form of production, there was the period when production predominantly relied on man's hand and primary working forces were man labour. During such period, agricultural and industrial activities were not clearly differentiated (Koga, 1968) and many people not only worked in farming but they also generated extra business to get extra earnings while utilising spare labour after farming hours (Hunter, 2008). ... With reference to Hunter (2008), "traditional industry "...

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During the 1990s, literature on the international political economy was dominated by the idea of globalization. ... Liberals argue that trade benefits everyone because it helps people concentrate on what they are best at (the formal version of this argument is the theory of ˜comparative advantage'). ... Comparative advantage (a state's most efficient production) varies from state to state (for example, Argentina may be better at beef farming than textiles). ... The internationalization of economic activity in Europe first took off in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, wit...

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It was rather their duty to spread to other nations those advantages which through the course of the centuries they had won for themselves." ... Backing this further, this almost false yet Whig way of looking at the British Empire meant an arguably ignorant view that the Empire was the white man's" burden and during its end was honourably discharged but deliberately wound up meaning there was absolutely no shame in the loss of the British Empire, rather they felt they had proudly come to a deserved end, passing on sovereignty to their "loyal" subjects.Darwin, arguably blaming the decline ...

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