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History does not show greed of gain as the motive of the great steps in industrial progress.

— J. A. Hobson The Evolution of Modern Capitalism: A Study of Machine Production (1906)

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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)

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