"The control of competition is designed, at best, to reconcile socioeconomic stability with innovation, and at worst, to keep competitors out of the market. In this respect, the nineteenth century was no more liberal than the eighteenth century. Even during the presumed liberal nineteenth...

Capitalism and Elite Feud: A Short Introduction -- PART I: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK -- A Unified Theory of Rent, Elite Feuds and Imperial Expansion -- PART II: RENT, ELITE FEUDS AND IMPERIAL EXPANSION IN EARLY MODERN AND MODERN EUROPE -- Atlanticism, the Slave Trade and Westward Expansion of...

The book sets out to explore the economic motivations of imperial expansion under capitalism. This undoubtedly is related to two fundamental research questions in economic sciences. First, what factors explain the divergence in living standards across countries under the capitalist economic...