Abstract:The economic activity tends to self-organize under every imaginable situation thanks to the coordinating and creative force of entrepreneurship. Thus, during the Second World War, a market economy developed spontaneously in P.O.W. camps, driven by the entrepreneurship based on the cigarette currency and on free exchange, in which prisoners tried to improve their material welfare by means of voluntary cooperation. Through the testimony of an economist, who fought in the British army and who was captured by the … Show more
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