Re: LSE Business Review – How the Blitz enhanced London’s economy

[jody2.718]

It may well depend on one's point of view. To the multi-nationalists and their agents floating (balloon-like) above the various paroxysms of conflict, war can be extremely profitable- opening up whole new vistas of potential investment and exploitation.

For others, caught-up in the actual horror- just that: horrible, irredeemable (by any Redeemer's power) loss.

Likewise, even on the ground, in the midst of the smoke and fog, there seems to be a hierarchy of loss and gain depending on one's vantage point and a whole string of unpredictable and/or unintended consequences. In the Pynchonian context, I'm thinking of Zoyd actually assuming the role of window-breaking agent, lying on his back, covered in shards, and then looking up to see Hector carelessly munching on what Zoyd had assumed was glass.

On some level, the reader might assume, the game is rigged from the get-go, but never completely predictable.
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Erik:

I wonder what Bastiat would say about this...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
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On Tue, Jun 26, 2018, 10:08 Mark Kohut <
[mark.kohut at gmail.com](https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l)
> wrote:

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2018/06/25/how-the-blitz-enhanced-londons-economy/