The real political/economic story for the past three centuries was about the control of God's providence. It's been a massive land grab hiding behind the exalted values of voluntary collaboration.
Most international trade is in commodities and raw materials or food that comes directly out of the ground. In America and England, where the development of the economy has moved beyond the commodity level, the chief good being traded is money: the seigniorage analogue to Nature's God's providence.
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