People have been making the argument that war makes no economic sense, and therefore won't happen, since at least 1898: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Gotlib

People have been making the argument that war makes no economic sense, and therefore won't happen, since at least 1898: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Gotlib_Bloch#Research_and_analysis_of_modern_warfare http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Gotlib_Bloch#Research_and_a... Sixteen years later, they had the first world war.