When a society moves from allocating resources by custom and tradition to allocating resources by markets, they may be said to have undergone an industrial revolution. (Arnold Toynbee)

When a society moves from allocating resources by custom and tradition to allocating resources by markets, they may be said to have undergone an industrial revolution.

Arnold Toynbee

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