The Unbearable Costs of Empire

James K. Galbraith

A chapter in Unbearable Cost, 2006, pp 72-75 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Talk in Washington these days is of Rome. But George W. Bush is no Caesar, and France under Napoleon may be the better precedent. Like Bush, Napoleon came to power in a coup. Like Bush, he fought off a foreign threat, then took advantage to convert the Republic to Empire. Like Bush, he built an immense army. Like Bush, he could not resist the temptation to use it. But unlike Caesar’s, Napoleon’s imperial pretensions did not last.

Keywords: Consumer Spending; Corporate Fraud; Willful Ignorance; Good Precedent; Political Cynicism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230236721_19

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