> zero-sum In the Econ 101 model of the world, there are no beans to be gained in war. Changing what you produce does not increase what you produce. There are

> zero-sum In the Econ 101 model of the world, there are no beans to be gained in war. Changing what you produce does not increase what you produce. There are only beans to be lost, by producing weapons of war instead of producing what markets actually need and want. This is called the "broken window fallacy". See e.g. https://mises.org/library/broken-window-fallacy https://mises.org/library/broken-window-fallacy. I have many disagreements with the author of that article, e.g. I think his model of the economy is not realistic enough to be useful. But I think perhaps his model is exactly the kind of model that people have in mind when they think of economic nihilism: an infinite number of perfectly-fungible cyborgs all trading perfectly-fungible goods and services in an idealized frictionless free market. But it is in exactly this model that the broken window fallacy is the most obviously fallacious!