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''This is not because commerce is an extension of war or because commerce does not offer a “bond of friendship”. It is rather because of a set of perverse incentives: commerce and the wealth it brings about increase the power of commercial interest groups and decrease the relative and the perceived costs of wars.''
''This is not because commerce is an extension of war or because commerce does not offer a “bond of friendship”. It is rather because of a set of perverse incentives: commerce and the wealth it brings about increase the power of commercial interest groups and decrease the relative and the perceived costs of wars.''


Think of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Think of the contemporary Russian invasion of Ukraine.


Electronic copy available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3230507
https://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/econ_faculty/48/
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Without human evolution, commerce can be dangerous -

This is not because commerce is an extension of war or because commerce does not offer a “bond of friendship”. It is rather because of a set of perverse incentives: commerce and the wealth it brings about increase the power of commercial interest groups and decrease the relative and the perceived costs of wars.

Think of the contemporary Russian invasion of Ukraine.

https://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/econ_faculty/48/