Re: "What does Scottish independence and the break-up of the United Kingdom mean to businesses"
> All the things that will need to be duplicated that are currently shared amounts to a huge waste of money,
That has not been the case in Czechoslovakia, nor between the Republika Srpska and BiH. The long and the short of it is that "things" do not really get duplicated, but rather split up, with little new overhead (in some cases, one or both of the new entities can end up being more efficient than their old counterpart, with a net saving). Where there has been additional State-building spending, it has not been obvious that it could be attributed to the division itself--an example is the modernisation of the Czech (and latter Slovakian) military after 1993, which is more to do with them revamping their capabilities and joining NATO than with the creation of those two new countries per se.
Where did you hear about this "broken window fallacy" thing, btw? You are the second poster to mention it.
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