Since people speicilize in a certain thing it causes isolation since they want to do good at that certain area or thing they are specializing in.
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By the terms of the final treaty, signed on May 10, 1871, at Frankfurt am Main, Germany annexed the French provinces of Alsace (excluding Belfort) and Lorraine; the French were also ordered to pay an indemnity of five billion francs.
Since they have just gotten over war and money was good for one side but they had lack of money on the other side. From that case it was hard for them to agree over each other whether they could trade or not.
A growth model is developed in which competition may increase the incremental profit from innovating; on the other hand, competition may also reduce innovation incentives for laggards. There are four key predictions. First, the relationship between product market competition (PMC) and innovation is an inverted U-shape.
It was a way of introducing new ideas and new goods
