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During the Apartheid era South Africa was subjected to various economic and military sanctions and embargos by the international community. These sanctions were one of the most significant factors that led to the end of Apartheid as the South African economy became unstable and began the slide...

With a POD starting as early 1992, have Turkey's economy grow substantially greater and larger than irl with a GDP at least at 1 trillion USD.

A common trope I see with highly interventionist and command economies is that they pursue "autarky", aka to rely only on their own resources and not be affected by external trends and blockades This often leads to isolationist policies trying to shield authoritarian nations from the outside...

So basically how large can the US population get with the same GDP per capita (around $64,000) by 2020? (or at least America be a very wealthy nation but with a larger total GDP) What would the effect be? Bonus if later PODs. Bigger bonus if the US is the same territorial size. Biggest bonus if...

Chapter 1: The Fall of An Empire *** Chapter 8 of Last Empire of Europe: The Soviet Union by Alexei Trymoshenko “The reporters and officials of Moscow gathered at Vnukovo airport after the end of the August Coup in the early hours of August 22 to welcome the president on his return from his...

The late Ming Dyansty, to put it politely...was a mess. Silver inflation from Spain, corruption in the imperial court, economic downturn, incompetent or short-lived emperors, factionalism, eunuchs, peasant revolts, the Japanese, and famines that all showed signs that the Ming Dyansty lost the...

The Spanish colonization of the Americas, including the conquests of the Inca, Aztecs and other natives brought great wealth and power to the Spanish Empire. However, that wealth was also a disadvantage, as all that silver caused economic inflation in the Spanish Empire. So what if, Spanish...

How can the Republic of Ireland have an economic miracle between the 1940s and the 1970s, similar to that Spain/Sweden/France/Italy etc? With a POD after 1922 how can Ireland initiate a post war economic boom and become more industrialised?

In the autumn of 1985 serious consideration was given by the Conservative government to joining the Exchange Rate Mechanism, Foreign Secretary Geoffrey Howe, Chancellor Nigel Lawson and Deputy Prime Minister Willie Whitelaw were all in favour of joining but Margaret Thatcher was opposed and...

Hi all. I am looking for some numbers on Oil consumption in WW1. Preferably for all belligerents but particularly for Britain. The closest I have been able to find was a quote from the Wikipedia Article "Economic History of World War 1" which claims (Quoting from The American Petroleum...

Lets call it a BBB WW1 because why not? Based on the flurry of recent threads involving a change in US support for the Entente/Aliies. So here is the question: WW1 hurt Britain financially. That much is clear. So, ignoring the occasionally rabid debate over how bad the situation in 1916/1917...

What would happen if the post war economic boom in the USA ended in the early 80s instead of the early 70s of OTL. Maybe the US invests a lot in civilian nuclear power and public transportation so the oil shock doesn’t hit the US as hard, or maybe the USD is devalued in the 50s so the US has a...

Russia Resurgent Chapter 1: 1996 Russian Elections Russia and the World held their breath as on 3rd July, the results of the 1996 elections came in. Many people today even wonder why Yeltsin even tried. Under him Russia had become the butt of all Western Country’s jokes and corruption, crime...

Niek Koning writes that In the late 1850s, many farmers joined the new Republican party, which promised free soil and the exclusion of slavery from the new terriories. After the victory of the Union, however, the new party revealed itself as a tool of northeastern business interests, imposing...

Niek Koning writes that In the late 1850s, many farmers joined the new Republican party, which promised free soil and the exclusion of slavery from the new terriories. After the victory of the Union, however, the new party revealed itself as a tool of northeastern business interests, imposing...

I read "Between 1865 and 1914, an American "colony" of expatriate businessmen emerged in London that is central to this study. The American "colony" integrated itself within the social and economic networks upon which British imperialism depended and mediated new inter-imperial collaborations."...

According to Susie Pak's book Gentleman's Bankers the JP morgan family/banks has been the leading force on Wall street up until 1930, she dont look past this time. Are they still the leading force on Wall street or what would you say?. Anything i can read about it?.

What if in January 1945, the Third Reich and the Empire of Japan both attempted to nationalize all of the companies within their countries? From January to their surrender, they subsume every company within a particular industry (such as automotive manufacture) into one state-owned company for...

I wanted to branch off in a new thread similar to the one previously made but from a topic that was not exactly covered: slavery, specifically the development of a plantation economy or a mecantilist economy. Would England send in families or single men ? Would there even be a plantation economy...

In my TL, West Africa is developing several centuries sooner than it did IOTL due to Carthage winning the 2nd Punic War and spurring a large scale trans-Saharan trade to pay off its wartime debts. I have a sahelian state that spans the Senegal and Niger rivers and I was wondering if it's...