Are wars good for science and technology? Do we have many technologies and luxuries we would lack if it weren’t for war and military spending? The reality, as Peter Klein explains in the March issue  of The Free Market, is that while wars and military spending lead to the refinement of many technological inventions, they also prevent the creation and refinement of many things we might have wanted more. War and militarism also saddle us with things that make humanity worse off. Like atomic bombs. Advocacy for war as a driver of human invention is just another variation on the Broken-Window Fallacy: “[T]he … Continue reading Without Pharoah, Who Would Build the Pyramids?