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4 articles tagged “theory”.
Concept
When the material rationale for conquest weakens, what happens to the war budget?
The economic argument that abundance weakens the material rationale for conquest, together with the structural critiques of that view.
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Theory
The classic tradeoff and what happens when the marginal costs of both collapse.
The classic production-possibilities tradeoff between military and civilian goods, reframed for a near-zero-marginal-cost economy.
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Why war is not economic stimulus, and why the abundance-era opportunity cost is larger than ever.
Bastiat's parable of the broken window applied to war-as-stimulus, and why abundance makes the opportunity cost of destruction larger than ever.
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Does climbing the energy ladder correlate with leaving violence behind?
Whether civilizational energy tiers correlate with reduced violence, examining Pinker's long-peace thesis and its serious counterarguments.
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