Why the Wealthy Won: Economic Mobilization and Economic Development in Two World Wars

Mark Harrison ()

Chapter 3 in The Economics of Coercion and Conflict, 2014, pp 67-98 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: The study of total war suggests two themes that might be of common interest to both economists and historians. One is to evaluate the contribution of economic factors to the outcomes of wars. The other concerns the effects of wars on long-run economic development. Both topics are worthy and have attracted substantial attention in the literature (Milward, 1977; Hardach, 1977; Ránki, 1993; Overy, 1995; Harrison, 1998a; Chickering and Förster, 2000). This paper deals only with the first…

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