Imperialism by J. Allan Hobson
A Study
A concise economic and political critique arguing that modern overseas expansion is driven less by patriotic idealism than by domestic maldistribution of wealth and the needs of finance and monopoly capital to find profitable outlets abroad; imperialism is presented as a consequence of surplus savings, underconsumption, and the power of bankers and industrialists, which fosters militarism, corruption, and social inequality at home while exploiting subject peoples abroad, and can, the author contends, be checked by redistributive social reforms that remove the economic incentives for expansion.
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- 1902
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- English
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