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Interesting insights on German motivation for WW1 with explication of A.D. Chandler’s idea that German industrialists sought “horizontal and vertical integration of their businesses through military means” as a response to the “American danger.”
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“Marginalist revolution” in economic thought represented “the intellectual enclosure” of European thought about Economics (particularly Marshall’s development of microeconomics and partial equilibrium.) Dehistoricized, mathematized, and ostensibly immune to the machinations of politics economics moved to place itself in the company of the Natural sciences.
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America achieved such integration by “relentless war with the continent’s Indigenous people.” European colonial powers meanwhile achieved similar ends via conquering peoples and lands of Asia and Africa. Landlocked Germany - late to the colonial party - would need to achieve similar ends in Europe itself
— Jul 02, 2026 01:00PM
