Wars Waste Resources, So Does Unemployment
In: Flash Cards
By: Andrea Terzi
If you think wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were a gigantic waste of money, chronic unemployment in peacetime may be even worse! War raises output and unemployment is not an efficient allocation of our resources.
Wars raise output only to consume it in battlefields, with no real improvement in per capita standard of living. But the same fervor we use to point to the waste of resources (not speaking of human tragedies) resulting from wars, should equally be applicable to any rate of unemployment above zero. Â Unemployment entails a similar, and in almost all cases effectively in greater magnitude waste of output that is not produced in the first place.
- Tags: Middle East, Unemployment, War
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