The Economic Causes of War - Couverture souple

Loria, Achille

 
9781443789912: The Economic Causes of War

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According to economists there existed at one time a primitive, idyllic stage of society when the labors of isolated producers sufficed to supply their needs. There is no reason to doubt that such a condition of affairs actually did obtain, although no traces of it now remain to us. In any event, however, this condition could have prevailed only during the early infancy of humanity, and at a time when population was extremely sparse. For, as soon as the increasing population, finding itself compelled to use lands of comparatively limited fertility, extended the In view of the fact that the present conflict has so generally confirmed Professor Loria stheories regarding the economic causes and aspects of war as laid down in his striking work: Les Bases Economiques de la Justice Internationale [the title of which has been changed in the translation toT he Economic Causes of War], which was published by theN obel Institute in 1912, his views cannot fail to impress the reader as prophetic. In a supplemental chapter (C hapter VI), written in the fall of 1916, the author calls attention to certain phases in the wars development which obviously confirm his theories, and also to other details which seem to refute them a refutation, it should be noted, which is only one in appearance. Translator.
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