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Destructionism, as discussed by Austrian economist Ludwig Von Mises, refers to policies that consume capital but do not accumulate it. It is the title of Part V of his seminal work Socialism.
The destruction of large buildings has become increasingly common as the massive housing projects of the 1960s and 1970s are being leveled around the world. At 439 feet (134 m) and 2,200,000 square feet (200,000 m 2 ), the J. L. Hudson Department Store and Addition is the tallest steel framed building and largest single structure ever imploded .
SS Sussex at Boulogne after being torpedoed in March 1916. The entire forepart of the ship was destroyed in the attack. The Sussex Pledge was a promise made by Germany to the United States in 1916, during World War I before the latter entered World War I.
[Genocide is] the planned destruction, since the mid-nineteenth century, of a racial, national, or ethnic group as such, by the following means: (a) selective mass murder of elites or parts of the population; (b) elimination of national (racial, ethnic) culture and religious life with the intent of "denationalization"; (c) enslavement, with the ...
Examples of the destruction of pagan temples in the late fourth century, as recorded in surviving texts, describe Martin of Tours' attacks on holy sites in Gaul, [5] the destruction of temples in Syria by Marcellus, [6] the destruction of temples and images in, and surrounding, Carthage, [7] the Patriarch Theophilus who seized and destroyed pagan temples in Alexandria, [8] the levelling of all ...
Desorption is the physical process where adsorbed atoms or molecules are released from a surface into the surrounding vacuum or fluid. This occurs when a molecule gains enough energy to overcome the activation barrier and the binding energy that keep it attached to the surface.
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Chapter 2, "The Broken Window", uses the example of a broken window to demonstrate what Hazlitt considers the fallacy that destruction can be good for the economy. He argues that while the broken window may create work for the glazier, the money the shopkeeper has to spend on replacing the window means that he cannot spend it elsewhere in the ...