The conquered nations then provided additional sources of revenues either through goods, slave labor, or gold and silver that could be used to support additional armies, thereby creating a "virtuous" cycle. From the demands of war, trade theory has moved through a number of stages. Adam Smith, the Scottish economist and philosopher, stated that countries traded because they had an absolute advantage...
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Adam Smith, the Scottish economist and philosopher, stated that countries traded because they had an absolute advantage. One nation's workers could produce a given product more efficiently than workers in other countries. Rather than produce those products that it could produce but poorly, a country could specialize and exchange those products it produced efficiently for those produced efficiently by another country and, therefore, increase its overall wealth...
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