[kazen44]

> After the war ended, cooler heads prevailed and all wartime orders were lifted and capital and labor could reform, as it saw fit, and as such, the year immediately following the war produced the greatest annualized economic gains in the history of the country

the reason the US was ably to basically jump start it's economy after ww2 was mainly because all of its competitors got either got their industries and cities literally leveled, or their nation/people nearly utterly destroyed.

Even the UK, which was a victor of world war 2 had an economy which was basically dead in the water until the late 70's.

The US got incredibly "lucky" during world war 2 in the sense that it didn't fight the conflict on its own continent.

Also, the marshall plan was a smart policy in an economic sense because it allowed the war economy to transistion back into civilian goods thanks to having a massive (subsidized) export market.

[generalpass]

> > After the war ended, cooler heads prevailed and all wartime orders were lifted and capital and labor could reform, as it saw fit, and as such, the year immediately following the war produced the greatest annualized economic gains in the history of the country

> the reason the US was ably to basically jump start it's economy after ww2 was mainly because all of its competitors got either got their industries and cities literally leveled, or their nation/people nearly utterly destroyed.

> Even the UK, which was a victor of world war 2 had an economy which was basically dead in the water until the late 70's.

> The US got incredibly "lucky" during world war 2 in the sense that it didn't fight the conflict on its own continent.

> Also, the marshall plan was a smart policy in an economic sense because it allowed the war economy to transistion back into civilian goods thanks to having a massive (subsidized) export market.

Nations are not competitors. They are trade partners.

The Marshall Plan was passed in 1948.

[TeMPOraL]

> Nations are not competitors. They are trade partners.

Of course nations are competitors. International trade is an unregulated market, every nation competes economically with each other and tries to extract maximally favorable deal for themselves; when negotiations get heated, they get backed up by military strength, and the only reason we don't go to war often is a combination of sanity and MADness.

[generalpass]

> > Nations are not competitors. They are trade partners.

> Of course nations are competitors. International trade is an unregulated market, every nation competes economically with each other and tries to extract maximally favorable deal for themselves; when negotiations get heated, they get backed up by military strength, and the only reason we don't go to war often is a combination of sanity and MADness.

What does this have to do with post-WWII economic recovery in the U.S.?

[newyankee]

US got favorable deals in many countries using its military might, i guess that is what the comment is implying.

[samstave]

>Nations are not competitors. They are trade partners.

These are not mutually exclusive. See China v USA right now.

[generalpass]

> >Nations are not competitors. They are trade partners.

> These are not mutually exclusive. See China v USA right now.

Well, taken out of context of the discussion, you can say lots of things.