Practice question · True or false
"Bulk goods do not travel far" is a permanent law of economic geography.
Hints
- It was a statement about cost dressed as a law.
- Changing the cost dissolved it within a generation.
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False
Why
It was a statement about the price of moving things, wearing the costume of a law. Change the price and it evaporated within a generation, which is a useful warning about every other law in this field.
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