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Economic warfare, including blockades of essential goods and bombings of industry, was widely used in WWII but with limited impact. This column explores Mançur Olson’s explanation, which is underpinned by the elementary economic concept of substitution. Olson argued that there are no essential goods; there are only essential uses, which can generally be supplied in many ways.
The World Economic Forum's recorded history has been manufactured to appear as though the organisation was a strictly European creation, but this isn't so. In fact, Klaus Schwab had an elite American political team working in the shadows that.