Economic History of Warfare and State Formation

By: Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development

Book Overview

Part I Wars and State Formation in the Short and Long Run.- 1 Paths to Inclusive Political Institutions (Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson) .- 2 States and Development: Early Modern India, China and Great Divergence (Bishnupriya Gupta, Debin Ma and Tirthankar Roy) .- Part II Political Economy of Democracies and Dictatorships.- 3 Decentralization, Fiscal Structure, and Local State Capacity in Late-Imperial Russia (Steven Nafziger) .- 4 Historicizing Divergence: A Comparative Analysis of the Revolutionary Crises in Russia and Finland (Pavel Osinsky and Jari Eloranta) .- 5 Repression and Punishment under Stalin: Evidence from the Soviet Archives (Andrei Markevich) .- Part III Economic History of the World Wars.- 6 Myths of the Great War (Mark Harrison) .- 7 War and Inflation in the United States from the Revolution to the Persian Gulf War (Hugh Rockoff) .- 8 Lessons Learned? British Mobilisation for the Two World Wars (Stephen Broadberry and Peter Howlett) .- 9 World War II and US Economic Performance (Price V. Fishback and Taylor Jaworski) .- 10 The Mirage of the German Armament Miracle in World War II (Jonas Scherner and Jochen Streb) .-11 Neutrality in War (Eric Golson). Subject Index

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811016046
• ISBN13: 9789811016042
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 283 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"