Marilyn Waring - If a country develops an economic system that is based on how to pay for th

If a country develops an economic system that is based on how to pay for the war, and if the amounts of fixed capital investment that are apparent are tied up in armaments, and if that country is a major exporter of arms, and its industrial fabric is dependent on them, then it would be in that country's interests to ensure that it always had a market. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is clearly in the interests of the world's leading arms exporters to make sure that there is always a war going on somewhere.

- Marilyn Waring

source: Marilyn Waring (1999). “Counting for Nothing: What Men Value and what Women are Worth”, p.139, University of Toronto Press

topic: Country, War, Would Be, Capital Investment