War in the History of Economic Thought

Economists and the Question of War
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-35073-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 266 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

Even after the experience of WWII and despite the existence of various institutions such as United Nations to avoid conflict between nations, we have not succeeded in making a world free from war. The Cold War, the Vietnam War, the intervention of the superpowers in local conflicts and the spread of terrorism have made this all too clear.

This volume brings together contributions by leading international scholars of various countries and reconstructs how economists have dealt with issues that have been puzzling them for nearly three centuries: Can a war be 'rational'? Does international commerce complement or substitute war? Who are the real winners and losers of wars? How are military expenses to be funded?

The book offers a refreshing approach to the subject and how we think about the relations between economics and war.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ikeda, Yukihiro

Rosselli, Annalisa

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction (Yukihiro Ikeda and Annalisa Rosselli)

Part 1: Before the two World Wars

1. The Food Weapon: Milestones in the History of a Concept (17th-19th centuries) (Alain Clément and Riccardo Soliani)

2. Why the Wars? And How to Pay for them? A Comparison between Hume and Smith (Daniel Diatkine)

3. Hume and Smith on Morality and War (Shinji Nohara)

4. Industrialism and War in the French Social Sciences in Early 19th Century (Philippe Steiner)

5. Studying Economics as War Effort: The First Economic Treatise in the Ottoman Empire and its Militaristic Motivations (Deniz T. Kilincoglu)

6. Economic Non-intervention and Military Non-intervention in John Stuart Mill’s Thought (Philippe Gillig)

Part 2: Japan and World War Two

7. New Liberalism in Interwar Japan: A Study of the Magazine The New Liberalism (Simpei Yamamoto)

8. Economic Research in National Higher Commercial Schools in Wartime Japan (Tadashi Ohtsuki)

9. Yasuma Takata’s Theory on Power and Race (Tsutomu Hashimoto)

Part 3: Lessons from the 20th Century World Wars

10. How to Avoid War: Federalism in L. Robbins and W. H. Beveridge (Atsushi Komine)

11. The Wartime Economy and the Theory of Price Controls (Paolo Paesani and Annalisa Rosselli)

12. From Barter to Monetary Economy: Ordoliberal Views on the Post-WWII German Economic Order (Raphaël Fèvre)

13. The Transformation of Kenneth Arrow’s Attitude toward War (Nao Saito)

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Yukihiro Ikeda is Professor of History of Economic Thought at Keio University, Japan.

Annalisa Rosselli is Professor of History of Economic Thought at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy.