an interesting academic read on whether war is necessary for growth

[Sternjaeger II]

https://www.csbsju.edu/Documents/Clemens%20Lecture/HistoricallySpeaking-Issues%20merged%201%2016%2007_2_.pdf

definitely worth a read!

[baronWastelan]

A hypothetical shill for the Military-industrial complex may find this paper to be "worth a read". Who considers a paper without footnotes "academic"? Good topic, wrong document.

What exactly is the 'General Intelligence Agency'???:

At the time of the Sputnik crisis the General Intelligence Agency, the
Air Force and several defense contractors were already working on a
surveillance satellite program termed Corona.

[Sternjaeger II]

A shill for the Military-industrial complex would find this paper to be "worth a read". Who considers a paper without footnotes "academic"? Good topic, wrong document.

What exactly is the 'General Intelligence Agency'???:

..erm, Vernon W. Ruttan was quite a famous economist man http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Wesley_Ruttan

how do you mean "without footnotes"? There's references on the bottom.
As per the General Intelligence Agency, I believe it's another way of referring to the CIA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona_(satellite))

[baronWastelan]

Footnotes and references are not the same. It isn't a difficult concept. The paper is shoddily written. It took less than 5 minutes to find a couple of mistakes.

[Sternjaeger II]

This is just a paper, if there's no need for footnotes, they won't be used.
As per shoddily written, I would like to remind you again who Ruttan was, and unless you turn out to be a more famous economist than he is, please forgive me if I take your points with a pinch of salt..