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It was a very significant advantage, however since the decisive front, the Eastern Front, took place between Germany and the USSR and the USSR had much fewer material resources than Germany (in terms of iron, steel, metal in general, the Germans had a 4-6 to one advantage), one can claim that since...

Two commentaries: 1 - The idea that ancient egyptians looked like modern african americans is a product of american racism, since african americans were influenced by the racism of the white americans and therefore some became racist themselves. As result, since they think that race is important the...

I don't consider 10 billion to be all that optimistic really. We currently manage to feed 7 billion (if barely and inadequately for a lot of them) and that's with humanity doing a really shitty job of managing the resources available (if you're using the 1E12 billion I'm naturally retracting the cr...

On the oil shortage: The most acute problem of the USA transplated into the 18th century would be oil. That would be resolved as even the private oil companies would have the resources to simply occupy any lands which we know today that have oil reserves while the 18th century people would be unable...

Some interesting facts: The world's population in 1775 ad was around 800 million, the USA had 3 million at the time, substituting for the Modern USA the world's population would increase to 1.1 billion, an increase of 40%. There are more literate people in the USA today than in the world in 1775. US...

3. Conquest! *Edit To put 3 in more prospective I'm guessing since your talking about pure nomadic tribes at this point we will give the tribes lavish gifts and buy everyone's friendship via small scale projects. People are still fighting over water rights at this point in history so something like...

What if the United States and all of its unincorporated territories were suddenly transported back in time through to 1776? The US's satellite communications systems will not be transported, nor will its overseas bases and military personnel. What would happen in "our" reality, and what w...

I think that the so called barbarisation of the Roman army was a consequence of the general economic decline of classical civilization. This process started around the mid 2nd century, perhaps earlier, perhaps later, depending on the set of archaeological data used. However by the 4-5th centuries th...

When you read about WWII history there is a definite trend in the literature that the Allies had such an overwhelming advantage in materials, men and resources that there was no conceivable way that the Germans or Japanese were going to win the war. Victory was inevitable. While the Allies had a su...

A government monopoly in a certain segment would have the same or worse effects than a private monopoly backed by the government. A monopoly is inefficient because if the market is blocked some information that other entrepreneurs might have about improvements in the segment is neutralized. As resu...

Do you deny that enclosures resulted in people having no work and being destitute, moving to the cities? If so, what are your sources? That's the argument usually put forth by historians. The problem is: historians don't know shit about economics, and some understanding of economics is required to ...

The process of fast economic growth that characterized Britain during the period know as industrial revolution was not because a class of destitute people was "created" by the enclosures. Enclosures only substituted the highly inefficient peasant run farms by modern market run farming, th...

Germany did not industrialize later due to lack of colonies, it industrialized later due to a lack of enclosures and a later liberalization of the farming laws (which up to then prevented the rise of a worker class) and due to political disunity resulting in such high tariffs that it become unprofi...

I had decided to exclude myself from this, but now I am on my last vacations, so I have enough free time to burn. Oh my god. This communist thing has gone too far here. With mister Bush advocating the state control of the media because "A state monopoly has advantages stemming from a massive ec...

So despite the base money supply being goosed in 2009 and 2010 the broad money supply has flatlined and the total credit supply is shrinking. Which means...you're wrong again. I said that during the boom period the money multiplier was increasing. During the bust (which is the 2008-2010 period) the...

When everybody else doesn't understand you, maybe the problem isn't with everybody else. Just sayin'. Well, when I talk with PHD's in economics or fellow students of economics they usually understand, or at least have a greater degree of understanding than it is show here. While if a layman here vo...

I fully understand everything you've said, I flat-out reject it on the basis that it's utterly and COMPLETELY WRONG. 1) You do not understand the workings of central banks 2) You do not know what a fiat money system is 3) You do not know what a credit-money system is 4) You do not understand why ou...

"The next time you're engaged in a political discussion with someone who has very strong views different from your own, ask them if they can name two famous thinkers or politicians whose politics are opposed to theirs who they also think are very smart and genuinely concerned with making the w...

kouchpotato shows that he is a retard by assuming that Iosef Cross doesn't care about climate change beyond dollars and cents. If you could actually read, you'd see that he is explaining why nobody is going to act, and that is because nobody can add it up in terms they understand. "Survival of...

The main reason why nobody does anything about global warming is the lack of clearly defined costs and benefits of the reduction of Co2 emissions. Seriously? We know the benefits of reduction of Co2 emissions, not destroying our world. Are you that fucking thick that you can only see things in how ...

The main reason why nobody does anything about global warming is the lack of clearly defined costs and benefits of the reduction of Co2 emissions. We know that Co2 creates the tendency for the increase in global temperature, however, we don't know the full effects of Co2 emissions in the sense that:...

Due to an act of ROB the entire RDA forces on Pandora are teleported to a deserted island. On other end of the island are following North Korean forces. The North Koreans have => 10 T-72 tanks 5 ZSU-23 Shilkas A small airstrip with a pair of Mig-21 fighters And 100 infantry with the expected North ...

Assume you are an agent of a large top-secret organisation in the year 2150. You are led into a top-secret facility, and it is revealed that your organisation has developed a time viewer allowing them to see the past and most likely futures, and that all the most plausible futures show the end of h...

The central bank determines the money base, while private banks can multiply this base thought fractional reserve banking. However, the central bank also determines the rules of leverage limit and compulsory deposits, with set the bar on credit expansion. So, while central banks do not directly det...

You know that economic systems aren't a capitalism/communism bipole, right? Saying communism doesn't work in no way means you need a market economy instead. Well... You speak in the sense that there is a continuous line between total government ownership of the means of production and total private...