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Re:US pauses all Federal aid and grants by ty6853 on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @03:35AM (#42862836)
That is strong evidence post WW2 is a competing nomination. At 2.2 vs 2.5 it is probably down into the noise if they are estimates, especially ones from 1800s. This why I did not provide any quantitative comparison.

Down into the noise on a winner, I think I'll take the one with much lower taxes and far lower incarceration rate as my preferred template to break the tie.

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Re:US pauses all Federal aid and grants by Aloisius on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @08:07PM (#42873574)
There is no reason to believe that they would have achieved the same growth rate had they started with a larger economy.

As I stated, it is much easier to double growth when you're small and ultimately, growth rate doesn't matter as you can't spend growth rates. Nominal growth matters. The economy increasing by $5.5k per capita (2011 $) in the period after the civil war is a lot less impressive than increasing by $23k after WW2.

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