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Trade: why exchange makes everyone richer

Trade is often taken for a zero-sum game: if someone won, someone else lost. Economics showed the opposite two hundred years ago — exchange is addition, not confiscation. But an honest conversation does not end there: the gain is spread thinly across everyone, while the loss falls on a few, at once and hard.