markitect-main/examples/infospace-with-history/output/entities/commercial-society.md

# Commercial Society

## Definition
Commercial Society refers to a society in which the majority of economic activity is based on the exchange of goods and services. In such a society, individuals rely on the production of others for the majority of their needs and wants, facilitated by the use of money as a medium of exchange.

## Source Chapter
Book 1, Chapter 4

## Context
Smith uses the concept of a commercial society to explain the development of complex economies where individuals become increasingly specialized in their work and depend on trade with others to meet their needs.

## Economic Domain
Economic Sociology, Economic History, Microeconomics
feat(infospace): flat canonical entity set with cross-chapter deduplication Restructure entity storage from per-chapter subdirectories to a flat canonical set in output/entities/. Each entity exists as a single file; duplicates across chapters are detected by slug collision and skipped (first occurrence wins). Chapter views use {{ include }} transclusion to reference shared entity files. Add @{existing_entities} macro to extract-entities template so the LLM knows which entities already exist and focuses on genuinely new ones. Refactor _call_llm() from _execute_llm() for callers that handle their own file I/O. 41 unique entities from 4 chapters (2 duplicates removed). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com> 2026-02-11 22:24:20 +01:00			`# Commercial Society`

			`## Definition`
			`Commercial Society refers to a society in which the majority of economic activity is based on the exchange of goods and services. In such a society, individuals rely on the production of others for the majority of their needs and wants, facilitated by the use of money as a medium of exchange.`

			`## Source Chapter`
			`Book 1, Chapter 4`

			`## Context`
			`Smith uses the concept of a commercial society to explain the development of complex economies where individuals become increasingly specialized in their work and depend on trade with others to meet their needs.`

			`## Economic Domain`
			`Economic Sociology, Economic History, Microeconomics`