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First published 1939

The Economic Causes of War

The Economic Causes of War by Lionel Robbins is available as a free PDF, EPUB, and Kindle download at freecapitalists.org.

Author
Lionel Robbins
First published
1939
Format
PDF, EPUB, and Kindle
Pages
126
Publisher
New York: Howard Fertig
License
Believed to be in the public domain: this work was published in the 1932-1963 window when US copyright had to be renewed after 28 years, and no renewal was found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries. Not independently confirmed.

War & foreign policy Austrian theory & method

Robbins' analysis here presented has still a place in the rational discussion of the possible causes of war. It fits very well the period of history in regard to which the Marxian theories here discussed were originally elaborated.

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Is The Economic Causes of War free to download?
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How long is The Economic Causes of War?
126 pages, 9 chapters, and about 37,421 words in the edition this archive serves.
Is The Economic Causes of War in the public domain?
Believed so. US works published between 1932 and 1963 kept copyright past 28 years only if someone filed a renewal, and no renewal for this work was found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries. That is a search result rather than a legal opinion: a renewal filed under a shortened title or a different claimant would not have been found. Some copies carry a rights notice, which records the original claim and does not extend a term that lapsed.
Who wrote The Economic Causes of War?
Lionel Robbins (1898–1984) was one of the leading English economists of the 20th century. He wrote on wages, inflation, the economics of war, and the history of economic thought. This archive holds 6 of Robbins's works.

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9 chapters · 37,421 words · free to read here

  1. The Economic Causes of War
  2. PREFACE
  3. INTRODUCTION
  4. THE MARXIAN THEORY OF IMPERIALISM
  5. THE MARXIAN THEORY TESTED
  6. THE ECONOMIC CAUSES OF WAR
  7. THE ULTIMATE CAUSE OF INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT
  8. THE MEANING OF ECONOMIC CAUSATION
  9. About this edition
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Lionel Robbins 1898–1984

Lionel Robbins (1898–1984) was one of the leading English economists of the 20th century. He wrote on wages, inflation, the economics of war, and the history of economic thought. Read more about Lionel Robbins.

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