Brad DeLong (ver em Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Economist Brad DeLong's Fair, Balanced, and Reality-Based Semi-Daily Journal) cita Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium, de Ron Findlay and Kevin O'Rourke, Princeton University Press. Excertos:
" A feature of the book that may strike some economists as odd or surprising, but will seem entirely commonplace to historians, is its sustained emphasis on conflict, violence, and geopolitics... For much of our period the pattern of trade can only be understood as being the outcome of some military or political equilibrium between contending powers"
"Like most mainstream economists, we view inventiveness and incentives, rather than sheer accumulation, “primitive” or otherwise, as being at the heart of growth, but this does not imply that European overseas expansion should be written off as irrelevant. Plunder may not have directly fueled the Industrial Revolution, but mercantilism and imperialism were an important part of the global context within which it originated.... Violence thus undoubtedly mattered in shaping the environment within which the conventional economic forces of supply and demand operated...."
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