Oct 25, 2019
Welcome to Finance and Fury, The Furious Friday Edition.
War is a racket –
Today – and probably a few more episodes – War and the Economics of it - How it all works
– like most things it changes based around the incentives and options at the time
Next part – run through the modern war era - explain how direct all out world wars and now proxy wars work and who it benefits -
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Links
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/economic_of_war/the_economics_of_war.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket
https://mises.org/library/economics-war
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler#Death
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/economic
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=d000000104&cycle=2020