Posts Tagged ‘War

By: Andrea Terzi

Have you ever considered full employment as a means to properly measure the cost of wars? Tolerating unemployment may indeed lead to pro-war sentiments.  Fighting wars requires using resources to produce weapons, feed soldiers, provide transportation. Read the rest of this entry »

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. Read the rest of this entry »


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