an interesting academic read on whether war is necessary for growth

[Sternjaeger II]

https://www.csbsju.edu/Documents/Cle...16%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'???:

Originally Posted by So Called Academic Paper on p. 17

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]

Originally Posted by baronWastelan

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..