[lbo-talk] Re: New (or Old) Imperialism

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Old imperialism question. Reading Donald Kagan's short
Pelopponesian War. Yes, he's a bad guy, but he's a
real scholar of this subject. Anyway, he throws off
the observatiuon that most 18th, 19th and 20th century
empires have been net economic losses to the
metropolis and have been maintained for reasons of
prestige -- sort of a Hobson-Schumpter theory. Is
there a good review of whether that is true? 

--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> Turbulo at aol.com wrote:
> 
> >Do you have the stats concerning US consumption as
> a percentage of 
> >world consumption for roughly the same period?
> 
> Not at my fingertips but my guess is that it'd be
> the same or 
> slightly higher than the GDP share. Over the last
> few years, US 
> consumption has inched above 70% of GDP (after being
> in the mid-60s 
> in the 1990s and the low 60s in the early post-WW2
> decades). That's 
> higher than most other countries (which have higher
> investment, 
> government, and net export shares).
> 
> Doug
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