The World in Chains: Some Aspects of War and Trade
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- THE WORLD IN CHAINS
- SOME ASPECTS OF WAR AND TRADE
- JOHN MAVROGORDATO M.A.
- Note
- CONTENTS
- CHAPTER I
- §1 The Massacre of Colleagues
- §2 The Widening Sphere of Morality
- §3 The Receding God
- § 4 The Philosopher looks at Society
- § 5 Homo Homini Lupus
- § 6 Tribe against Tribe
- § 7 The City State
- § 8 The Nations of Europe ferae naturae
- § 9 The Convenience of Diplomacy
- § 10 A Note on Democracy
- § 11 Diplomacy not bad in itself
- § 12 Manners no Substitute for Morals
- § 13 War a Moral Anachronism
- CHAPTER II
- § 1 The Armament Ring
- § 2 Eugenics?
- § 3 Patriotism
- § 4 The "Moral Test"
- § 5 Trade
- § 6 Trade in Time of Peace
- § 7 Duties of Commerce to the State
- § 8 Restricted Sphere of Government corresponding to Restricted Sphere of Morality
- CHAPTER III
- § 1 Trade during the War
- § 2 Trade lives on Increasing Demand
- § 3 War a form of Destruction
- § 4 War stands to benefit Neutral as well as Belligerent Nations but not to the same extent
- § 5 The greater the Capital, the greater the War Profit?
- § 6 The Blessings of Invasion
- § 7 The Luxury Trades don't do so badly
- § 8 Trade Profits in war not shared by the Nation but confined to Employers
- § 9 Trade Profit and National Loss
- CHAPTER IV
- § 1 Dialectics round the Death-bed
- § 2 German Responsibility for the War
- § 3 The Value of German Culture
- § 4 The Manufacture of Hatred
- § 5 Imperialism the Enemy
- § 6 Possible Objects of War
- § 7 Physical Force in a Moral World
- § 8 Imperialism and Capitalism through War and Trade the Enemies: Socialism to the Rescue
- SOCIALISTS OF THE WORLD UNITE.
- APPENDIX TO CHAPTER III
- SOME TYPICAL WAR PROFITS
- I. The Manchester Guardian, January 3, 1916: BRITISH INDUSTRY IN WAR
- 2. The Manchester Guardian, March 3, 1916: MORE GREAT PROFITS
- HOLT LINE'S ENORMOUS SURPLUS
- 3. Pall Mall Gazette, September 24, 1915: WAR PROFITS
- 4. The Manchester Guardian, Feb. 28, 1916: COAL PROFITS NEARLY DOUBLED
- 5. The Times, May 19, 1916: SOAPMAKERS' "RECORD" PROFITS
- 6. The New Witness: THE SCANDAL OF WAR PROFITS
- 7. The New Statesman, March 25, 1916:
- 8. The New Statesman, May 27, 1916:
- 9. The New Statesman, June 24, 1916:
- 10. The New Witness, June 15, 1916: WAR PROFITS AND THE GOVERNMENT
- 11. The New Witness, June 15, 1916: WILLIAM CORY & SON
- HOLBROOKS
- JAMES HINKS & SON
- 12. The Manchester Guardian, June 19, 1916:
- 13. The New Witness, June 22, 1916:
- 14. The Westminster Gazette, July 15, 1916:
- 15. The New Statesman, July 1, 1916:
- 16. Pall Mall Gazette, January 31, 1916:
- ARMY OF INSPECTORS
- AS MUCH FOOD AS USUAL
- 17. The Daily News, August 16, 1915: A YEAR OF ECONOMIC WAR
- 18. Pall Mall Gazette, November 10, 1916:
- LIVING ON WAR
- KRUPPS' PROFIT JUMPS FROM 1-1/2 MILLIONS TO 4-1/2
- 19. Pall Mall Gazette: GERMAN DIVIDENDS
- ECONOMIC POSITION OF SOME OF HER COMPANIES
- 20. The Times, July 5, 1916:
- WAR PROFIT-MONGERS IN RUSSIA
- 21. The Westminster Gazette, Aug. 28, 1916:
- GERMAN WAR SCANDALS
- 700 PER CENT PROFIT FOR EAST PRUSSIAN LANDOWNERS
- LETTERS FROM GREECE
- CASSANDRA IN TROY
- MARTIN SECKER
- HIS COMPLETE CATALOGUE MCMXVII
- Martin Secker's Catalogue
- PART ONE INDEX OF AUTHORS
- PART TWO: CLASSIFIED INDEX OF TITLES
- Martin Secker's Series of
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