… is from page 59 of my GMU Econ colleague Tyler Cowen’s superb 2002 book celebrating the creativeness of commercial culture and global trade, Creative Destruction: How Globalization Is Changing the World’s Cultures:
It is no accident that Classical civilization developed in the Mediterranean, where cultures used sea transport to trade with each other and learn from each other.


It is no accident that Classical civilization developed in the Mediterranean, where cultures used sea transport to trade with each other and learn from each other.
