Honzo November 21st, 2005

At least that is the claim by Erik Gartzke in the 2005 Economic Freedom of the World Annual Report put out by the Cato Institute.

In chapter 2 of the report (document in pdf), Gartzke maintains that

“Capitalism
encourages cooperation among states by creating conditions that make
war unappealing or unnecessary…Conquest becomes expensive and
unprofitable. Wealth in modern economies is much harder to “steal”
through force than was the case among agricultural and early industrial
societies..”

While this economic principle has been slow to bear fruit and will ,
Gartzke says that the report has the data to back him up. Check it out.

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