The guild-liberated entrepreneur could accomplish this in numerous ways: he could recruit cheaper (albeit less-skilled) labor from the hinterlands than in the urban centers; he could use innovative equipment that had been banned by a guild; the only limit on the number of workers he could employ was the upper limit of his pocketbook; he could lower the quality of his product as much as he thought his targeted market would allow (Duplessis, 121). ...

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The amount of the members in the average American household never really changes until later in the nineteenth century, however we begin to see changes as early as the 1800s when couples begin to limit the size of their families. ... Farmers in the middle states and in the West used mostly horses, because of their superior speed and maneuverability through the larger fields. ...

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Having done this, Part 2 identifies the limits to liberalisation--especially its tendency to generate more frequent, wider and deeper economic shocks and uncertainty and to expose weaker (emerging) economies to the vicissitudes of global financial markets lacking adequate institutional defensive capability in times of crisis. ... Rather, it is their volume, scope, depth, speed and clustering that is unprecedented. ...

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