[ExI] War drives innovation

Stefano Vaj stefano.vaj at gmail.com
Mon Oct 10 16:47:22 UTC 2011


On 6 October 2011 16:51, Tara Maya <tara at taramayastales.com> wrote:

> However, the paradox is that for the past five hundred years (probably
> more) wars have always been won by the combatant with the strongest economy,
> and usually that has meant the freest economy. Liberal England vs
> centralized Napoleonic France, the capitalist democratic Allies vs. the
> National Socialists, etc.
>

Well, this is quite debatable. WWII was mainly fought and won by the Soviet
Union (Poland, France and England had not performed so well in spite of the
enormous colonial empires of the latter and of their "capitalistic"
economies in its first phase), and in wartime very little of normal
constitutional and/or market mechanisms were in place on either side.

-- 
Stefano Vaj
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