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commercial society  

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  • The idea of a commercial society was central to eighteenth-century political economy and thought. Although it shares some features with contemporary liberal capitalist orders, it is best understood as a protocapitalist form of economic and social organization. [Source: Encyclopedia of Political Theory; Commercial Society]

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/commercial_society

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