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A comment that I've often heard from others, as well as my history professors is that many European colonies were rarely cost effective investments, and often yielded little economic benefit to the home country in the long run. Is there strong evidence for this claim?

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A comment that I've often heard from others, as well as my history professors is that many European colonies were rarely cost effective investments, and often yielded little economic benefit to the home country in the long run. Is there strong evidence for this claim?	219
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