Prevent the Stagflation of the 70s

Avoid Vietnam war (no war expense)

JFK assassination (no great society expense)
and oil embargo,and you have a very different 70s.
 
Wage and price controls. They have never worked from Diocletian onward. Yes, unemployment will spike temporarily while the inflation is flushed out- short-term pain for long-term gain.
 
Ah, thanks; makes perfect sense.

Monetarist policy I'm a little iffier on -- though if it prevents SSE from gaining prominence, it'd be well worth it...
 
I'm not sure that monetarism and abolition of wage and price controls are in the cards without a POD well before the oil crisis.
 
There were great thoughts about the nuclear society in the 60is where electricity would take the roll of coal (instead of oil) so economically the investments go somewhere else. An earlier short oil embargo, maybe in the early 60is, could nip both Breton woods problems and the oil dependency in the bud. This means Saudi and Iranian oil fields have to come into operation a decade earlier, something that could be done whit different post ww2 industrial development in Europe, earlier oil dependency in the industry maybe. Having the chock in the early 60is is going to make it much easier to solve than in the mid 70is as world economy had a good growth during the 60is and many countries experienced labor shortage. So learning about the evils of rising inflation while unemployment becomes higher is less damaging than in the 70is. Renegotiating the Breton woods in the 60is might be a good idea too, taking it for granted to renegotiate it every 20 year or so.

Earlier involvement of USA in East Asia, maybe from 46 to late 50is in china, could be a good thing. Experience of being bogged down in an “unwinnable” war earlier might give USA a more hesitant attitude towards intervention in colonial wars later on while they still could “afford” big wars.

Earlier US social security systems in line whit Europe and Canada created 45-60 would make any great society experiments unnecessary in the 70is.

But that is my 2 cents and I would guess a POD in 46 is always so early that it would butterfly the 70is
 

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There were great thoughts about the nuclear society in the 60is where electricity would take the roll of coal (instead of oil) so economically the investments go somewhere else. An earlier short oil embargo, maybe in the early 60is, could nip both Breton woods problems and the oil dependency in the bud.

There was an oil embargo in 1956 over Suez which prompted the development of small petrol efficient cars such as the Mini. Have the US support Britain, France and Israel against Nasser and the US would be hit by that oil embargo as well.
 
There was an oil embargo in 1956 over Suez which prompted the development of small petrol efficient cars such as the Mini. Have the US support Britain, France and Israel against Nasser and the US would be hit by that oil embargo as well.

Yes but that embargo were not sever enough to threaten the strong US 50is economic growth. Could we have Venezuela go communist around this time and embargo that oil to? That would hit the economy hard enough I think (and create a bit of paranoia over communist takeover of Iran and Saudi oilfields in the future). Making a mess in Indonesia during the 50is would also serve to make Oil scarcer.

Could operation Ajax mess things up enough?
 
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