Question

How can war boost or hurt and economy?

Answer 1

It can boost the economy, like the Great Depression, we had a surplus of everything and by funding the war and sending out food it helped get rid of that surplus and raise back prices and it gave jobs

Answer 2

War boosts an economy by providing jobs to those who do not go to war and creates more jobs to help the war. Therefore, the unemployment rate goes down.

However a war hurts an economy by damaging land, killing people, and severing ties between possible allies.