{"id":8563,"date":"2011-04-29T05:43:02","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T10:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=8563"},"modified":"2011-04-29T05:43:02","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T10:43:02","slug":"econ-101-lets-watch-star-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/8563","title":{"rendered":"Econ 101:  Let&#039;s Watch Star Wars!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.overthinkingit.com\/2011\/04\/25\/star-wars-death-star-economics\/\">Overthinking It:  The Economics of Death Star Planet Destruction<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>War in general makes poor economic sense. Thousands of lives are lost and millions of man-hours are spent producing things that will break, explode or be exploded. Even the shittiest factory in the world at least produces crappy T-shirts. It may produce them at a higher cost than would justify the operation of the factory, but at least at the end of the day there\u2019s some shirts.<\/p>\n<p>The strategic calculus of the Death Star, on the other hand, may be more rewarding.<\/p>\n<p>One of the more effective negotiation tactics, from a game theory perspective, is to convince your opponent that you\u2019re crazy enough to do something stupid. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overthinking It: The Economics of Death Star Planet Destruction War in general makes poor economic sense. Thousands of lives are lost and millions of man-hours are spent producing things that will break, explode or be exploded. Even the shittiest factory &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/8563\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}