Why were states willing to invest the time and money needed to build canals?

States willing to invest the time and money needed to build canals because it was safer to travel on canals than it was to travel on roads.

Explanation:

There are four transportation system: road, rail, water and air. Each of the transportation system has its own advantage and disadvantages. Water transport is safe to travel as it has less traffic than other transportation system. So, there are less chances of accidents.

Road transportation is comparatively busiest way where excess traffic causes and it is not safe at all like canal. Through canal one can transport lots of goods and cargo to other neighbor states. For e.g. Panama canal, Suez canal are some of the important canal of States used for transportation since ages.

this is an outline for the decisions that frankie is going to make

opportunity cost

willingness to buy

price or quality

of course, there could be many economic strategies that should be considered important while making decision. opportunity cost is the foremost significant factor while considering any economic option. when you buy something, you should know how much you are forgoing for this product. indeed, you could buy something different with this measure if you changed your mind. willingness to buy shows how much surplus you are earning while making a decision. it is important because it shows you buy what you want or you buy because you have only limited amount of money. the price or quality can be considered as a general economic option that we are applying while buying something. when you buy something, price or quality could be one of the options. indeed, they define the characteristics of the product.    

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trade regulation is a field of law, often bracketed with antitrust (as in the phrase “antitrust and trade regulation law”), including government regulation of unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive business acts or practices. antitrust law is often considered a subset of trade regulation law. franchise and distribution law, consumer protection law, and advertising law are sometimes considered parts of trade regulation law.

in general the theory of economics says that the more open to trade a country is the better   the result for the same country and the whole economies.

in real life countries impose taxes, quotas, etc which is not so good for the economies.

this kind of commercial war between the usa and china is slowing down the growth of the whole world so we can say that it is a draw back of trade regulations. and the free trade agreements are benefits of trade regulations.