Chapter VII
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CHAPTER VII
Peace and the Price System The different conceptions of peace, 299. —Psychological effects of the war, 303. —The handicraft system and the machine industry, and their psychological effect on political preconceptions, 306. —The machine technology and the decay of patriotic loyalty, 310. —Summary, 313. —Ownership and the right of contract, 315. —Standardised under handicraft system, 319. —Ownership and the machine industry. 320. —Business control and sabotage, 322. —Governments of pacific nations controlled by privileged classes, 326. —Effect of peace on the economic situation, 328. —Economic aspects of a régime of peace, especially as related to the development of classes, 330. —The analogy of the Victorian Peace, 344. —The case of the American Farmer, 348. —The leisure class, 350. —The rising standard of living, 354. —Culture, 355. —The eventual cleavage of classes, those who own and those who do not, 360. —Conditioned by peace at large, 366. —Necessary conditions of a lasting peace, 367.