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History does not show greed of gain as the motive of the great steps in industrial progress.
The Evolution of Modern Capitalism: A Study of Machine Production (1906)
This new and enlarged edition of The Evolution of Modern Capitalism contains additions and alterations so great as to constitute it in effect a new book.
The Evolution of Modern Capitalism: A Study of Machine Production (1906)
Economic nationalism means protective and discriminative tariffs, and a conservation of national, imperial or allied resources within a circle of favored beneficiaries.
The Morals of Economic Internationalism (1920)
On what a slippery slope ...international morality reposes.
The Morals of Economic Internationalism (1920)
Perhaps the worst of the three fallacies, and in a sense the deepest-rooted, is the concept of export trade as of more value than import trade.
The Morals of Economic Internationalism (1920)
Higher progress can only be purchased by an economy of the work of lower progress, the free, conscious expression of higher individuality by the routine subordination of lower individuality.
The Evolution of Modern Capitalism: A Study of Machine Production (1906)
Is it not the larger and the longer hope and interest of America to live as a great partner in... a society of nations, rather than to live a life of isolated prosperity... ?
The Morals of Economic Internationalism (1920)
The substitution of industrialism for warfare is not... understood to imply a diminution of individual enterprise, but an alteration in its application.
The Evolution of Modern Capitalism: A Study of Machine Production (1906)
In proportion as we add to mere variety a higher appreciation of those adaptations of matter which are due to human skill, and which we call Art, we pass outside the limits of matter and are no longer the slaves of roods and acres and a law of diminishing returns.
The Evolution of Modern Capitalism: A Study of Machine Production (1906)
In proportion as a community comes to substitute a qualitative for a quantitative standard of living, it escapes the limitations imposed by matter upon man. Art knows no restrictions of space or size, and in proportion as we attain the art of living we shall be likewise free.
The Evolution of Modern Capitalism: A Study of Machine Production (1906)
As nations advance towards civilisation it becomes less needful for them to contend with one another for land and food to support their increasing numbers, because their increased control of the industrial arts enables them to gain what they want by conquering nature instead of conquering their fellow-men.
Imperialism: A Study (1902)
Industrial progress would undoubtedly be slower under state-control, because the very object of such control is to divert a larger proportion of human genius and effort from these occupations in order to apply them in producing higher forms of wealth.
The Evolution of Modern Capitalism: A Study of Machine Production (1906)
The richly nourished patriotism of war breeds divisions and antagonisms which are easily exploited afterwards by political, racial, religious, and cultural passions, but most of all by economic interests.
The Morals of Economic Internationalism (1920)
The money received for sales has no other significance or value than its power to buy, and trade can only be imaged truly as an exchange of goods for goods in which the processes of selling and of buying are complementary.
The Morals of Economic Internationalism (1920)
Under socialized industry progress in the industrial arts would be slower and would absorb a smaller proportion of individual interest, in order that progress in the finer intellectual and moral arts might be faster, and might engage a larger share of life.
The Evolution of Modern Capitalism: A Study of Machine Production (1906)
It is untrue that the world market is strictly limited, with the consequence that every advance of one group of traders is at the expense of another group. The world market is indefinitely expansible and is always expanding...
The Morals of Economic Internationalism (1920)
If imperial expansion were really nothing other than a phase of the natural history of a nation it would be as idle to protest against it as to argue with an earthquake. But the policy of civilised States differs from that of uncivilised States in resting more largely upon deliberate conscious choice, partaking more definitely of the character of conduct.
Imperialism: A Study (1902)