Thanks for the video. From what I have studied regarding Hitler’s try at autarky it was based on the shrinking markets fallacy. I would imagine Mussolini believed in the same theory which led him to wrong conclusions. Basically the shrinking markets theory says that as you export goods to poorer nations they learn to eventually create them and then don’t need you anymore and you won’t be able to import food because the poor countries with plenty of food won’t be poor anymore and produce their own industrial goods and thus won’t need yours so your country will starve. This theory has been proven wrong since it is based on the zero sum game theory which is debunked and because in the decades after Mussolini agriculture became a lot more efficient and you could feed many more people with less manpower needed as farms became more and more productive thanks to mechanisation and other technologies.
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