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From Monsters and Critics.com Books News One must wonder this question when thinking of history and how trade has impacted it. In a recent NYT review, the reviewer noted, “The world is knit together as never before with a cat’s cradle of trade, which has already had immense consequences and will have many more. But while global trade has been much in the news lately, especially during this election year, it has an extremely long history. As William J. Bernstein makes clear in his entertaining and greatly enlightening book “A Splendid Exchange,” it has been a major force in driving the whole history of humankind.” Published by Atlantic Monthly Press, William J. Bernstein “is a fine writer and knows how to tell a great story well,” the NYT reviewer noted, and then ending the review with the remark that A Splendid Exchange is “superb”. A must for all history buffs, visit the NYT article to read more about it.
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