Excerpt from The Economics of War and Conquest: An Examination of Mr. Norman Angell's Economic DoctrinesBut he has travelled far beyond this simple truth, and by creating controversy about assertions which are either false or incapable of proof has obscured what is beyond controversy and yet sufficient in itself. In the following pages it will be shown that some economic gain may be achieved by means of a war of conquest. But the money value of the expectation of such gain is considerably less than the money cost of such a war.My best thanks are due to Messrs. Hector J. W. Hetherington and Donald Stalker for reading the manuscript and making several suggestions, and to the editors of The Welsh Outlook for permission to use an article on German war finance, published in the April number of that journal.The references in the text are to the 1914 edition of " The Great Illusion."About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.