However, in that autobiography Hobson did confess that he now thought that the emphasis on economic causation in Imperialism: A Study was overdone and that more emphasis should have been placed on the 'lust for power' with economic gains seen as a means of exercising power rather an end in themselves.

— Peter Cain J. A. Hobson's Imperialism: A Study: A Centennial Retrospective (2002)

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