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2695d · Capitalism
Funny how you can see when wars happened by the spikes. Even going back to 1812.
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now if only we could be permanently at war...🤔 GDP would explode! lol, jk https://mises.org/library/broken-window-fallacy
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Did GDP go up as well during the wars, or just the governments spending in proportion to the GDP?
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idk, I think both went up 🤷‍♀️. IIRC gov spending is part of GDP, so heavy gov spending would increase GDP & (all else constant) its percent GDP. not sure if gov debt is sub