TRADE & TRADE ASSOCIATIONS: VALUE VERIFIED

摘要

Those of us dispirited by the impending suspension of NASA-originated manned space flight see an abrupt and unwelcome endpoint to the natural tendency of humans to explore, gather, and trade. What we trade - whether nutmeg or notions or nanotechnology - is less relevant than that we do trade, and in doing so, learn, improve, and innovate. Not surprisingly, etymology links the word trade to tread and track in Middle English. The significance of getting from here to there in order to exchange one thing for another - by barter or by purchase - has long been recognized.