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  1. Thomas Sowell _ Conquests And Cultures: An

    It was in the wake of these erosions of economic controls that intellectual challenges were then made to the role of government in the economy, first by the Physiocrats in France, who coined the term "laissez-faire," and then by Adam Smith in Britain, who became its leading champion.
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  2. Thomas Sowell _ Conquests And Cultures: An

    British kings could not repudiate national debts-and this in turn made Britain a more attractive country for lenders.71
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  3. Thomas Sowell _ Conquests And Cultures: An

    Complex and time-consuming international economic transactions, including long-term investments, are particularly dependent on a reliable framework of law, so that changes of government policy or of individuals in power, do not create large uncertainties as to whether commitments will be honored or foreigners treated on an equal plane with the natives involved in commercial and financial transactions.
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  4. Thomas Sowell _ Conquests And Cultures: An

    What the British had earlier than many other peoples was a framework of law and government that facilitated economic transactions.
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    Between 50,000 and 100,000 Huguenots fled to Britain from France in the seventeenth century, particularly after revocation of the Edict of Nantes, which had previously guaranteed religious freedom to Protestants.67
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    stability of government and dependability of laws which attracted foreigners.
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    financial transactions that produced both wealth and unpopularity.
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  8. Thomas Sowell _ Conquests And Cultures: An

    The tsetse fly infests more than half the mainland,"' making cattle and draft animals impracticable in the infected regions.
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    Foreign workers, attracted to Nigeria from other African countries during boom times, were deeply resented during hard times-and were brutally expelled en masse, largely to Ghana.1N
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  10. Thomas Sowell _ Conquests And Cultures: An

    A Yoruba governor, defeated through vote fraud, was later found by a court to have won in fact by a million votes.
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  11. Thomas Sowell _ Conquests And Cultures: An

    were now not only affluent themselves but were also able to help family members-hut only so long as they stayed in office.'-
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  12. Thomas Sowell _ Conquests And Cultures: An

    Among the precepts that Andrew Jackson's mother taught him were never to sue anybody for slander or for assault and battery: "Always settle them cases yourself.
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