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| | Mercantilism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Mercantilism suggests that the ruling government should advance these goals by playing a protectionist role in the economy, by encouraging exports and discouraging imports, especially through the use of tariffs. | | | Keynes and other economists of the period also realized that the balance of payments is an important concern, and since the 1930s, all nations have closely monitored the inflow and outflow of capital, and most economists agree that a favorable balance of trade is desirable. | | | Keynes also adopted the essential idea of mercantilism that government intervention in the economy is a necessity. |
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| | The Founding of The American Republic 6.The Mercantile Impasse |
| | Mercantilism ranges government power behind the commercial activities of a nation, uses government power to support the merchants of a nation against those of other nations, prohibits trade activities of foreigners in order to give advantages to native tradesmen. | | | Back of this policy shift were the mercantilistic policies and practices which had produced a domestic crisis for the British which their government tried to relieve by bringing pressure on the colonies. | | | Perhaps the most fundamental flaw of mercantilism is the view that a nation's wealth can be increased by exporting more in goods and services than is imported. |
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http://www.libertyhaven.com/theoreticalorphilosophicalissues/economichistory/mercantileimpasse.html
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| | Mercantilism |
| | The renowned economist Adam Smith was the first to use the expression “mercantile system”, and it defined a system based on the government actively fostering economic policies of protectionism that would promote export and discourage import so as to enhance capital. | | | It was during this era of mercantilism that much of what constitutes modern capitalism was instituted, as witnessed by the economic policies of government intervention and control. | | | It was a system that benefited the merchants and manufacturers since they enjoyed state protection and support. |
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| | Under mercantilism, government is to organize the economy in the best interests of the nation; under capitalism, for the best interests of business; and under socialism, for the best interests of workers -- all for the common good. | | | The key to that goal, quickly identified, was government promotion of overseas trade because that trade could be taxed to the benefit of central government much more efficiently and with very many fewer negative domestic consequences thanany other activity. | | | The elevation of foreign trade meant the relegation of other sectors of the economy -- not their elimination, just their relegation to a secondary status. |
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| | Apolyton Civilization Forums > Civilization IV > Civ4-General > Mercantilism weak ??? |
| | As I understand it, mercantilism is the restriction of foreign imports so as to maintain a favourable trade balance in the domestic economy. | | | Free market does tend to bring in a lot more money then mercantilism, on contenents if you have open borders with everyone, especally with the lower cost for the civic. | | | Basically, it is the concept that having more cities is always better--ICS has been mostly eliminated in Civ4 due to the exponentially increasing maintenance costs for each additional city. |
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| | Mercantilism |
| | Mercantilism was a reaction against the economic problems of earlier times when states were too weak to guide their economies and when every town or principality levied its own tariffs on goods passing through its borders. | | | Mercantilism was the theory of trade espoused by the major European powers from roughly 1500 to 1800. | | | It advocated that a nation should export more than it imported and accumulate bullion (especially gold) to make up the difference. |
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| | Mercantilism is alive and well in Mexico |
| | Mercantilism is a many-dimensioned economic system, but the most important component of the doctrine is state control over business. | | | Even though foreign investment in oil and gas is technically illegal in Mexico, these companies apparently are obtaining all needed approvals and permits from the various Mexican agencies. | | | European farmers, traders or textile manufactures had to obtain special government permits, called “charters,” in order to operate their businesses. |
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| | Discovery: The Beginnings |
| | The other was the absence of credit, for mercantilism thrives when people can borrow money to finance their purchases; borrowing money was a bit of a pickle for medieval Europeans because lending money at interest was considered by the Church to be a mortal sin. | | | Ever mindful of their wallets, the European merchants and mercantile countries wanted to eliminate the middlemen and trade directly with the regions supplying these goods. | | | All it involves is the purchase of certain goods in a region where those goods are common, moving those goods to another region where they aren't common, and then selling them at a profit. |
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http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/REFORM/BEGIN.HTM
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| | Colonial Mercantilism |
| | Although it was never a cohesive system, and changed from nation to nation, its variations had similar characteristics and, most important, a shared economic philosophy. | | | In fact, there were many advantages that the colonists received from this system, such as having a built-in market for their raw products. | | | Now they began to enforce their mercantilist policies, which led to intensified animosity between the English and their colonies. |
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| | Xhosa Test on Merchant Stickiness - Eu2wiki |
| | In the 1.08 April 21, 2005 beta, at all Mercantilism DP settings, trade efficiency definitely helps merchants stick; but 20% of trade efficiency is not an overwhelming factor as represented by the t-statistic 2.862287. | | | This means that both trade tech and trade efficiency are important for keeping merchants in CoTs; to be strongest in trade, both trade tech and trade efficiency are required. | | | The value of the t-statistic for this test is 3.535961. |
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| | WowEssays.com - Mercantilism |
| | Aware of the huge amount of money that was being spent on foreign goods, Louis XIV worked towards establishing internal industries, such as tapestry production which France has become famous for. | | | The nobles disliked the system because of the possibility of increased taxes to all classes in order support government funded business. | | | Domestic industry increased employment, expanded commercial activity within the country and decreased France's dependence on foreign trade. |
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| | mercantilism - definition of mercantilism by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. |
| | The theory and system of political economy prevailing in Europe after the decline of feudalism, based on national policies of accumulating bullion, establishing colonies and a merchant marine, and developing industry and mining to attain a favorable balance of trade. | | | mercantilism - transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services) | | | mercantilism - an economic system (Europe in 18th C) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests |
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| | A Primer on Neoliberalism - Global Issues |
| | [Mercantilism’s] ultimate object… is always the same, to enrich the country [city or state] by an advantageous balance of trade. | | | It encourages the importation of the materials of manufacture, in order that our own people may be enabled to work them up more cheaply, and thereby prevent a greater and more valuable importation of the manufactured commodities. | | | But from a global perspective, this free trade was accompanied by geopolitics making it look more like mercantilism. |
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| | Capitalism |
| | Mercantilism might be roughly defined as the distribution of goods in order to realize a profit. | | | Capitalism is based on the same principle as mercantilism: the large-scale realization of a profit by acquiring goods for lower prices than one sells them. | | | Goods are bought at one site for a certain price and moved to another site and sold at a higher price. |
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http://www.wsu.edu:8001/~dee/GLOSSARY/CAPITAL.HTM
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| | Mercantilism, by Laura LaHaye: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Library of Economics and Liberty |
| | In exchange for paying levies and taxes to support the armies of the nation-states, the mercantile classes induced governments to enact policies that would protect their business interests against foreign competition. | | | The goal of these policies was, supposedly, to achieve a "favorable" balance of trade that would bring gold and silver into the country. | | | Most of the mercantilist policies were the outgrowth of the relationship between the governments of the nation-states and their mercantile classes. |
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http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Mercantilism.html
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| | SSRN-Implicit Mercantilism, Oligopoly, and Trade by Hiroshi Ohta, Martin McGuire |
| | As the production costs and techniques of the mercantile society converge to world standards, its citizens will first lose from this progress, only later to gain. | | | The analysis is particularly relevant to the structure of Asian economies, and to policy debates about their reform. | | | Both effects are due to certain relationships between home prices and world prices, newly identified in this paper. |
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| | Bruce Bartlett on U.S.-China Trade Deficits & Mercantilism on NRO Financial |
| | Last week, the House Ways and Means Committee held hearings on legislation to impose tariffs on Chinese imports. | | | Bruce Bartlett on U.S.-China Trade Deficits & Mercantilism on NRO Financial | | | Hence Commerce Secretary Don Evans's increasingly shrill attacks on China for contributing heavily to the U.S. trade deficit. |
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| | The Unfinished American Revolution |
| | The mercantilism of Britain was re-imposed by a new government committed to re-creating a British style regulatory system under new management. | | | Corporation X’s use of the law to forward its own narrow agenda should be readily identifiable as a political transaction, but the presence of free-markets or capitalism in such a transaction is quite illusory. | | | Every American taxpayer asked to foot the bill for a bailout of some poorly managed, yet government-favored corporation feels the sting of modern mercantilism. |
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| | Mercantilism is back |
| | Agriculture, for example, is widely considered to be a State matter since this sector gets subsidized and prices are controlled by the national administrations. | | | The WTO goal was not to bring about free trade but rather to set up a mechanism of enforcement that would tempt countries toward reprisal and regimentation and litigation. | | | Mercantilism regards the economy as a zero-sum game (what one country/individual earns is lost by another country/individual). |
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| | So it's a dynamic GURU who has his eyes on business/ mercantilism, products, merchandise. | | | So it's time for KNOWLEDGEABLE business people like your family, friends, kids, students, your listeners, audiences if you teach.....to seek out or develop GREAT products or PROJECTS for the nouvelle riche to invest their discretionary income in. | | | Walmart will buy cheap, pay poorly but sell huge volume ---that's generally the secret of mercantilism. |
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| | mercantilism on Encyclopedia.com |
| | The money economy: mercantilism, classical economics and Keynes' general theory.(Special Invited Iss... | | | Under a mercantilist policy a nation sought to sell more than it bought so as to accumulate bullion. | | | British mercantilism and crop controls in the tobacco colonies: a study of rent-seeking costs. |
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| | Mercantilism |
| | German mercantilism was concerned primarily with increasing the economic power of the state by internal regulation. | | | He prohibited the export of money, levied high tariffs on foreign manufactures, and gave liberal bounties to encourage French shipping. | | | Between 1600 and 1800 most of the states of western Europe were heavily influenced by a policy usually known as mercantilism. |
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| | Secular Web Kiosk and Bookstore |
| | Smith’s treatise, he basically said that government should butt out of the business of business. | | | It was also very inefficient in its use of capital and raw materials. | | | In the 1700’s, mercantilism was the dominant economic system in the world. |
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| | William Grampp, 'The Liberal Elements in English Mercantilism,' Quarterly Journal of Economics, 66 (1952), 465-501. | | | In what respects were mercantilist policies relatively 'liberal', and paradoxically a step towards freer trade? | | | (e) Jacob Van Klaveren, 'Fiscalism, Mercantilism, and Corruption,' pp. |
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| | Jacob Viner, "Power and Plenty as Objectives of Foreign Policy in the Seventheenth and Eighteenth Centuries," ... |
| | Until such investigation is systematically made, comparisons with mercantilism are liable to be misleading with respect to the true position of both bodies of doctrine. | | | It was also necessary at times for statesmen to resist the pressure from merchants to pursue petty commercial ends which promised immediate economic gain but at the possible cost of long-run military security and therefore also of long-run national prosperity. | | | For “pure” mercantilism, the ruling principle is not economic but the promotion of the power of the state. |
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| | Secular-Right India: Indic Mercantilism |
| | Such bodies were granted tax exemption and immunity from royal encroachment. | | | The mercantile communities in India were organized on a corporate basis and enjoyed administrative autonomy. | | | The maintenance of law and order, the collection of revenue and the mediation of disputes were delegated by royal charter to mercantile guilds. |
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http://secular-right.blogspot.com/2005/11/indic-mercantilism.html
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| | Adam Smith was greatly opposed to mercantilism, believing that the "invisible hand" of competition would set the best prices and a free market was the best economic system. | | | Mercantilism: Mercantilism was the standard economic system up until the second half of the 18th Century. | | | The main belief of mercantilism was that all available resources were used for the state. |
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| | Politicized Economies |
| | In Politicized Economies, the authors of the 1981 book Mercantilism as a Rent-Seeking Society revisit their thesis and the subsequent scholarship on rent seeking and extend their analysis to the Spanish Crown. | | | Events during the "mercantile period," ranging by some accounts from 1500 to 1776, were pivotal to the economic and social development of the modern world. | | | Ekelund and Tollison subject mercantilist foreign trade to neoclassical-neoinstitutional analysis, examining the general economic organization of the mercantile companies and focusing on the economic inner workings of the East India Company. |
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| | Mercantilism is one example of these early policies. | | | All societies have economic systems and although economic systems have existed as long as mankind, it was not until the 1600s, when international trade grew rapidly with Europe's exploration of the world, that nations began to develop economic policies, per se, for trading with each other. | | | But it was not until Adam Smith that people began to study economic policies and how they work in scientific fashion. |
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| | Topic 2: Mercantilism |
| | State action, an essential feature of the mercantile system, was used to accomplish its purposes - to sell more than it bought to accumulate gold bullion and raw materials. | | | Foreign states would then have to pay for imports in gold or silver. | | | Mercantilism was an economic policy, popular in the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe, which stated that a country's wealth and power was best served through |
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| | China Pursues 'Manifest Destiny' Through Mercantilism and Imperialism |
| | Latin America is an example of how Chinese mercantilism is assuming a neo-colonial pattern in which the dominant country secures markets for its manufactured goods in exchange for raw materials from its weaker partners. | | | Ambitious mercantile powers want to keep any advanced industrial project in their own hands, relegating partners to a subordinate supplier status. | | | USBIC and its affiliates, directors, officers, and employees are no longer associated with tradealert.org or any of its principals |
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| | Examples: Tasks: Social Science (mercantilism case study) (Authentic Assessment Toolbox) |
| | In this scenario, the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) wants to go back to a system of mercantilism in order to secure more valuable resources for the U.S., and to make the country richer through trade. | | | Data for United States FTC Study on Mercantilism | | | The mission of your group is to write a proposal for the FTC which explains which nation the U.S. should attempt to colonize and set up a system of mercantilism with. |
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| | What was the role of the government under mercantilism? | | | How does the doctrinal approach to studying mercantilism differ from the policy approach? | | | What were some examples of national monopolies or regulations put in place under mercantilism? |
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| | SparkNotes: SAT U.S. History: The Colonial Economy: Mercantilism |
| | To achieve this favorable balance of trade, the English passed regulatory laws exclusively benefiting the British economy. | | | Beginning around 1650, the British government pursued a policy of mercantilism in international trade. | | | Mercantilism stipulates that in order to build economic strength, a nation must export more than it imports. |
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| | A New World Order: Economic Liberalism or the New Mercantilism |
| | A New World Order: Economic Liberalism or the New Mercantilism | | | Private interests had to be subordinated to the ends of the state in this global war of all against all. | | | But this would only come about when the creed of political nationalism and mercantilism was again superseded by the ideals of economic liberalism. |
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| | Unmitigated Mercantilism: The Independent Review: The Independent Institute |
| | Created in 1934 to subsidize exports to the debt-repudiating Soviet Union, the U.S. Export-Import Bank is a clear-cut example of wasteful corporate welfare hiding behind economic fallacies. | | | Unmitigated Mercantilism: The Independent Review: The Independent Institute | | | Yet a leading economist, former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, somehow managed to tout its merits without blushing. |
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| | Emerging Corporate Imperialism |
| | Today it is taking the form of corporate imperialists moving their wealth offshore where they can avoid paying their share of taxes, avoid environmental laws, extort subsidies from desperate communities, pay subsistence wages to extract and process rich natural resources, and sell their manufactured products in any market. | | | Different forms of this process have constituted proto-mercantilism, mercantilism, and neo-mercantilism for over 800 years. | | | To avoid sharing those quasi-aristocratic privileges with labor, control of the economies of other countries from the bastion of protective laws of another nation is the norm. |
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| | mercantilism. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002 |
| | Accordingly, mercantilist governments imposed extensive restrictions on their economies to ensure a surplus of exports over imports. | | | ‡ The European quest for colonial holdings in Asia, Africa, and North and South America was partially a product of mercantile economics. | | | In the eighteenth century, mercantilism was challenged by the doctrine of laissez-faire. |
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| | Notes on Mercantilism, etc. |
| | Generally speaking, modern economists have maintained not merely that there is, as a rule, a balance of | | | It will be convenient, in accordance with tradition, to designate the older opinion as mercantilism and the newer as free trade, though these terms, since each of them has both a broader and a narrower signification, must be interpreted with reference to the context. | | | 150 ] for example, although his references to mercantilism are not altogether unsympathetic, had no regard for their central theory as such and does not even mention those elements of truth in their contentions which I shall examine below. |
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| | Within the theory of mercantilism the colonies were meant to be a source of raw materials and a market for finished products (manufactured goods). | | | Several types of laws were passed to put the mercantile theory in effect. | | | The navigation acts, designed to put mercantilism into effect, were meant to bring money into the Royal Treasury and to regulate trade. |
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http://www.runet.edu/~shepburn/mercantilism.htm
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| | Mercantilism was intended to benefit European powers, but it was not wholly disadvantageous to the colonies, providing a protective mantle for early development. | | | Mercantilism is an economic theory that there is a fixed amount of wealth in the world and that a nation's prosperity depends on its success in accumulating wealth by exporting more than it imports. | | | However, it has been argued that mercantilist policies left colonial economies dependent on staple production (see STAPLE THESIS) and obstructed their industrial development. |
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| | Mercantilisms functioned on the basis that the strength and wealth of a nation to be measured by the amount of gold and silver the country had. | | | Mercantilism as an economic practice and policy was essentially defended by royal authorities (the "Crown") - which had a vested interest in having an economy that would grow while at the same time weakening the position of the landed feudal lords. | | | It was an economic system based on direct state control over economic production with the aim of accumulating as much precious metals as possible. |
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| | Search Results for "Mercantilism" |
| | The country made the transition from a political economy shaped by British mercantilism to a new system of free trade, industrialization, and urbanization.... | | | ...1694 Pierre le Pesant called on France to switch from the mercantilism established by Colbert to a system of free enterprise as a means of righting the problems of... | | | The acts were an outgrowth of mercantilism, and followed principles laid down by Tudor and early Stuart... |
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| | In Newfoundland, European mercantilism succeeded in suppressing agricultural development, because geography was on its side. | | | The United States had passed through its turnpike era and was approaching its period of `canal mania'. | | | It belonged to an earlier era of European national policy, the period of Mercantilism and initial settlement in America. |
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| | Mercantilism, USA - Mises Institute |
| | For a nation at large, this error can be extremely costly because it dooms producers in the home country to inefficient lines of production and foists unnecessarily high prices on consumers. | | | Mercantilism is also harmful toward foreign nations and thereby gives rise to political conflicts that can lead to war. | | | The great economic error of mercantilism is the belief that foreign buyers are great but foreign sellers are not, and thus are barriers to imports necessary. |
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| | Mercantilism is a policy that are based on many ideas. | | | The term mercantilism was first used in 1776 by an economist, Adam Smith, from the latin word mercari meaning " to run a trade". | | | Mercantilism Between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, mercantilism was the policy that heavily influenced western Europe and took the place of medieval feudalism. |
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| | Mercantilism |
| | Globalization or a international economy did not exist, nor was it believed that it could exist and make money for each country involved. | | | The basic theory behind mercantilism is that in the world there is a set amount of wealth that can go from one country to another through trade. | | | Since mercantilism reflected a static economy it was up to Britain to create trade out of their colonies, specifically the |
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| | MERCANTILISM IMPORTS and EXPORTS |
| | To enforce mercantilism England passed the NAVIGATION ACTS, (Trade Acts) beginning in 1651. | | | Products were sold for gold and silver which helped build up the treasury for England. | | | These acts were designed to control trade with its colonies. |
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| | A Theory of Power, Jeff Vail's Critique of Hierarchy & Empire |
| | Is it possible that we develop something that meets the bill? | | | Given that choice, they will choose the latter. | | | I suspect sometimes these events are serendipitous rather than planned. |
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