# Disastrous Economic Fallacies - Terror as Stimulus?

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/videos/disastrous-economic-fallacies-terror-stimulus>

**By** Tom G. Palmer

**Published:** June 3, 2014

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Do natural disasters, earthquakes, or wars stimulate an economy and create growth?

Did World War 2 get the US out of the Great Depression? Frederic Bastiat explained why such thinking is fallacious. More information on the Bastiat Legacy Project is available [here](http://www.atlasnetwork.org/BastiatLegacy), and for more videos like this check out the Atlas Network's [Vimeo page here](http://www.vimeo.com/atlasagi).