Steven Postrel That sounds like a version of the broken windows...

May 10, 2025 at 11:01 AM  ·  Comment — Archer T. Ships replied to Steven Postrel's comment.  ·  View on Facebook  ·  Markdown source

Steven Postrel That sounds like a version of the broken windows fallacy. Does war stimulate some innovation? Yes. Does war stimulate more innovation than would've happened absent the war? Almost certainly not. I'm open to the possibility that war increases net innovation by destroying interlocking rentsenking networks, thus allowing new market entrants to appear and/or allowing a more functional / less parasitic government to rise. Post WWII Japan might be an example of this. But I'm skeptical that war fosters innovation on net, even taking that possibility into account.