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TopicWhich is better for profit? War or Peace?
Firewerx
07/22/19 4:00:31 PM
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Didn't the industrial economy of the United States have one of the world's most dynamic growth rates between the end of the Civil War and World War 1 -- a period when most of the conflicts in which Americans fought were minor internal or regional ones?

Competition produces innovation, change and growth, but the impulse that drove American creativity and prosperity in the 19th century and into the first decade of the 20th was surely not the military conquest of territories but the peaceful conquest of markets.
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