re: #10 ggt

Hmmm… you’ve got Gaia crossed with Mothra there, I think.

There has been quite a bit written (in anthropology) about the human need for conflict and how society emerges from that. There was a recent publication of a claim that war indeed has played an important role in getting humanity to where we are today.

Now, what has that to do with economics? I don’t know, but I’m sure there’s a Ph.D. dissertation lurking in there, or possibly a thousand, to be written.