Ikeda / Rosselli War in the History of Economic Thought

Economists and the question of war
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-351-99701-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 276 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

Even after the experience of WWII, 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 (Annalisa Rosselli and Yukihiro Ikeda)

Part 1. Mercantilists, Adam Smith and David Hume, How to Cope with Envies of Trade?

1. The Food Weapon: Milestones in the History of a Concept (17th-18th centuries) (Alain Clement)

2. Adamn Smith and Wars (Hideo Tanaka)

3. More Commerce, More Wars: Adam Smith and David Hume on the Effects of Economic Development on Warfare (Reinhard Schumacher and Maria Paganelli)

4. Adam Smith on War (Shinji Nohara)

5. Why the Wars? And How to Pay Them? A Comparison between Hume and Smith (Daniel Diatkine)

Part 2. Economics and Wars in the Post Smithian Context

6. French Political Economy, Industrialism and the Demise of War (Philippe Steiner)

7. Empire and its Militaristic Motivations (Deniz T. Kilincoglu)

8. The Impact of the Napoleonic Wars in Portugal (Natalia Tammone)

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

Part 3. Interwar Period and World War II: Nationalism, Corporatism and beyond

10. Pacifying Europe: The Complementary Contributions of Keynes and Coudenhove-Kalergi (Gerhard Michael Ambrosi)

11. The LSE’s Federalism during the Wars: Robbins and Beveridge’s Liberalisms (Atsushi Komine)

12. François Perroux’s Reflections on Corporatism and Fascism in the Interwar Period and its Significance for his "Personal Equation" (Alexandre Mendes Cunha)

13. New Liberalism in Interwar Japan: A Study of the Magazine, The New Liberalism (Shimpei Yamamoto)

14. Japanese Economics and Economists in the Wartime: The Institutional Changes (Tadashi Ohtsuki)

15. Yasuma Takata at Crisis in the History of Economic Thought (Tsutomu Hashimoto)

Part 4. World War II and Cold War: Wars and Various Economics Tools

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

17. Planning Liberialism Ordoliberal Sight on Post-war German Economic Order (1945-1948) (Raphae Fevre)

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

19. The Cause of War and Role of People by Karl Polanyi: A Change in Realm of International Relations after The Great Transformation (Takato Kasai)

Über Autor(innen)

Yukihiro Ikeda is a historian of economic thought. He is currently with the faculty of economics of Keio University, Japan. He has been researching the Austrian School of Economics, with special attention to Carl Menger and Friedrich Hayek, for more than twenty-five years. He is also interested in research of the historical development of German economics and the introduction of German Historical School of Japan.

Annalisa Rosselli is Professor at University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome. She researches in the history of economic thought.