Hume also argued against MeInternational trade, Hume believes, is a positive sum game, one in whircantilist that trading states are not rival in his work “Of the Jealousy of Trade (1758)”. ch the payoffs sum to a positive number, unlike the zero-sum of the mercantilists.
Hume did not believe either that the richer country will gain from international trade because provisions and labour become more expensive in the wealthy nations leave the poorer countries in a more competitive status.