The Economics of Coercion and Conflict

Mark Harrison ()

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Abstract: The papers brought together in this volume represent a decade of advances in the historical political economy of defence, dictatorship, and warfare. They address defining events and institutions of the world in the twentieth century: economic consequences of repression and violence, the outcomes of two world wars, and the rise and fall of communism. They cross traditional disciplinary boundaries, combining a broad sweep with close attention to measurement and narrative detail; offering insights into these issues from economics, history, political science, and statistics; and demonstrating in action the value of a multi-disciplinary approach.

Keywords: Defence; Dictatorship; Coercion; Conflict; Procurement; Mobilization; Political Economy; Repression; War (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
ISBN: 9789814583336
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction , pp 1-36

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Ch 2 War and Disintegration, 1914–1950 , pp 39-65

Jari Eloranta and Mark Harrison

Ch 3 Why the Wealthy Won: Economic Mobilization and Economic Development in Two World Wars , pp 67-98

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Ch 4 The USSR and Total War: Why Didn't the Soviet Economy Collapse in 1942? , pp 99-120

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Ch 5 The Frequency of Wars , pp 121-149

Mark Harrison and Nikolaus Wolf

Ch 6 Soviet Industry and the Red Army Under Stalin: A Military-Industrial Complex? , pp 153-173

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Ch 7 Contracting for Quality under a Dictator: The Soviet Defense Market, 1930–1950 , pp 175-201

Mark Harrison and Andrei Markevich

Ch 8 A Soviet Quasi-Market for Inventions: Jet Propulsion, 1932–1946 , pp 203-260

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Ch 9 The Political Economy of a Soviet Military R&D Failure: Steam Power for Aviation, 1932–1939 , pp 261-302

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Ch 10 The Fundamental Problem of Command: Plan and Compliance in a Partially Centralized Economy , pp 305-323

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Ch 11 Accumulation and Labor Coercion under Late Stalinism , pp 325-346

Paul R. Gregory and Mark Harrison

Ch 12 Economic Information in the Life and Death of the Soviet Command System , pp 347-376

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Ch 13 Coercion, Compliance, and the Collapse of the Soviet Command Economy , pp 377-421

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