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Economists in the Cold War

Author : Alan Bollard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192887394
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Economists in the Cold War written by Alan Bollard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economists in the Cold War is an account of the economic drivers and outcomes of the Cold War, told through the stories of seven international economists, who were all closely involved in theory and policy in the period 1945-73. For them, the Cold War was a battle of economic ideas, a fight between central planning and market allocation, exploring economic thinking derived from the battle between Marxist and Capitalist ideologies, a fundamental difference but with many intricacies. The book recounts how economic theory advanced, how new economic tools were developed, and how policies were tested. Each chapter is based on the involvement of one of the selected economists. It was a challenging but dangerous time in economics: a time of economic recovery post-war, with industrial rebuilding, economic growth, and rising incomes. But it was also a time of ideological warfare, nuclear rivalry, military expansion, and personal conflict. The narrative is approximately chronological, ranging from the Potsdam Conference in Germany to the Pinochet Coup in Chile. The selected economists include an American, a Pole, a Hungarian, a German, a British, a Japanese, and an Argentinian, all very different economists, but with interconnections among them. Each chapter also features a dissenting economist who held a contrasting view, and recounts the subsequent economic arguments that played out.

Economists at War

Author : Alan Bollard
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198846002
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Economists at War written by Alan Bollard and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wartime is not just about military success. Economists at War tells a different story - about a group of remarkable economists who used their skills to help their countries fight their battles during the Chinese-Japanese War, Second World War, and the Cold War. 1935-55 was a time of conflict, confrontation, and destruction. It was also a time when the skills of economists were called upon to finance the military, to identify economic vulnerabilities, and to help reconstruction. Economists at War: How a Handful of Economists Helped Win and Lose the World Wars focuses on the achievements of seven finance ministers, advisors, and central bankers from Japan, China, Germany, the UK, the USSR, and the US. It is a story of good and bad economic thinking, good and bad policy, and good and bad moral positions. The economists suffered threats, imprisonment, trial, and assassination. They all believed in the power of economics to make a difference, and their contributions had a significant impact on political outcomes and military ends. Economists at War shows the history of this turbulent period through a unique lens. It details the tension between civilian resources and military requirements; the desperate attempts to control economies wracked with inflation, depression, political argument, and fighting; and the clever schemes used to evade sanctions, develop barter trade, and use economic espionage. Politicians and generals cannot win wars if they do not have the resources. This book tells the human stories behind the economics of wartime.

The Economic Cold War

Author : I. Jackson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230510922
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Economic Cold War written by I. Jackson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-03-13 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a new interpretation of the economic dimension of the Cold War. It examines Anglo-American trade diplomacy towards the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. The book, which is based on research in American and British archives, presents new evidence to suggest that Anglo-American relations in East-West trade were characterised by friction and conflict as the two countries clashed over divergent commercial and strategic perceptions of the Soviet Union.

Reluctant Cold Warriors

Author : Vladimir Kontorovich
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190868147
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Reluctant Cold Warriors written by Vladimir Kontorovich and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars attribute the collapse of the Soviet Union in part to the militarization of its economy. But during the Cold War, economic studies of the USSR largely neglected the military sector of the Soviet economy-its dominant and most successful part. This is all the more puzzling in that academic study of the Soviet economy in the US was specifically created to help fight the Cold War. If the rival superpower maintained the peacetime war economy, why did experts fail to tell us when it mattered? Vladimir Kontorovich shows how Western economists came up with strained non-military interpretations of several important aspects of the Soviet economy which the Soviets themselves acknowledged to have military significance. Such "civilianization" suggests that the neglect of the military sector was not forced on scholars of the Soviet economy by secrecy; it was their choice. The explanation of this choice in Reluctant Cold Warriors raises many questions about the internal workings of economic Sovietology and its intellectual and political background. Are peripheral academic fields mimicking the agenda of the discipline's mainstream more likely to produce faulty scholarship? Did the search for the essence of socialism distract researchers from the actual Soviet economy? Were economic Sovietologists under political pressure, and if so, in what direction? This book answers these questions in a way that has broad relevance for national security uses of social science today.

The End of Laissez-Faire

Author : Robert Kuttner
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812214017
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The End of Laissez-Faire written by Robert Kuttner and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1992-02-29 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a book that explores what American economic policy should and can be—a superb yet controversial interpretation of the relation between domestic economic health and international politics, and of how we should set priorities to maintain our economy and our competitive vigor in the future.

Depression, War, and Cold War

Author : Robert Higgs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195182928
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Depression, War, and Cold War written by Robert Higgs and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-22 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Butter and Guns

Author : Diane B. Kunz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Butter and Guns written by Diane B. Kunz and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this masterful history of Cold War economics, Diane Kunz shows how America created its own prosperity through always shrewd and sometimes manipulative foreign policy.

The Marshall Plan

Author : Benn Steil
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198757913
Total Pages : 621 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book The Marshall Plan written by Benn Steil and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the Marshall Plan and the efforts to reconstruct western Europe as a bulwark against communist authoritarianism during a two-year period that saw the collapse of postwar U.S.-Soviet relations and the beginning of the Cold War.

Powernomics

Author : Clyde V. Prestowitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Powernomics written by Clyde V. Prestowitz and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Powernomics" has three main purposes. First, it presents in a helpful way basic works that explain to readers how national and global developments are affecting America's well-being-and their own. Second, its sections are arranged to guide readers through a thought process that reveals the magnitude of the challenges confronting us, and explains why the conventional wisdom has been so slow to recognize them-and, in fact, continues to deny that they exist. Third, the volume spotlights the questions that need to be asked in order to meet these challenges.

Cold War Capitalism

Author : Richard B. Day
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 9780765633422
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Cold War Capitalism written by Richard B. Day and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1995-08-29 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking back from the perspective of the mid-1990s, it is difficult to believe that Soviet power for so long presented a threat and a challenge to the capitalist system. Yet, until only a few short years ago, many in the West saw the Soviet Union as a military-industrial colossus--and ourselves as decadent, dispirited, and rapidly losing ground. This book examines the extent to which Soviet economists shared that opinion. Covering the period from the end of World War II to the beginning of detente (coinciding with the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam and the Watergate crisis), Cold War Capitalism takes up the analysis of Marxist-Leninist intellectual life which Richard Day began in The Crisis and the Crash: Soviet Studies of the West (1917-1939). This ongoing inquiry into Soviet political economy offers fascinating insights into both the perceptual origins of the Cold War and the tenacity with which it was waged.

Conversations with Stalin on Questions of Political Economy

Author : Pollack Ethan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Stalin on Questions of Political Economy written by Pollack Ethan and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dismantling The Cold War Economy

Author : Ann R. Markusen
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 9780465016655
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Dismantling The Cold War Economy written by Ann R. Markusen and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 1993-07-06 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive reassessment of the military-industrial complex. Based on extensive interviews with defence industry executives, Pentagon officials and community and union leaders, this book shows in detail how Cold War technologies have distorted and drained the economy.

Economists with Guns

Author : Bradley R. Simpson
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 080477952X
Total Pages : 555 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Economists with Guns written by Bradley R. Simpson and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-28 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering the first comprehensive history of U.S relations with Indonesia during the 1960s, Economists with Guns explores one of the central dynamics of international politics during the Cold War: the emergence and U.S. embrace of authoritarian regimes pledged to programs of military-led development. Drawing on newly declassified archival material, Simpson examines how Americans and Indonesians imagined the country's development in the 1950s and why they abandoned their democratic hopes in the 1960s in favor of Suharto's military regime. Far from viewing development as a path to democracy, this book highlights the evolving commitment of Americans and Indonesians to authoritarianism in the 1960s on.

How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind

Author : Paul Erickson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022604677X
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind written by Paul Erickson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II and the early 1980s, a new project of redefining rationality commanded the attention of sharp minds, powerful politicians, wealthy foundations, and top military brass. Its home was the human sciences—psychology, sociology, political science, and economics, among others—and its participants enlisted in an intellectual campaign to figure out what rationality should mean and how it could be deployed. How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind brings to life the people—Herbert Simon, Oskar Morgenstern, Herman Kahn, Anatol Rapoport, Thomas Schelling, and many others—and places, including the RAND Corporation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Cowles Commission for Research and Economics, and the Council on Foreign Relations, that played a key role in putting forth a “Cold War rationality.” Decision makers harnessed this picture of rationality—optimizing, formal, algorithmic, and mechanical—in their quest to understand phenomena as diverse as economic transactions, biological evolution, political elections, international relations, and military strategy. The authors chronicle and illuminate what it meant to be rational in the age of nuclear brinkmanship.

Essays on the Cold War

Author : Murray Wolfson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349120057
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book Essays on the Cold War written by Murray Wolfson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is concerned with the ideological origins of the cold war and how it was fought by economic means. The book revolves around four major themes. Firstly, it is argued that the origin of the cold war is not to be found in rational, economic motivation, but in ideology through which both the East and West perceived 'reality'. Secondly, these ideological preconceptions generated complex feed-back processes of hostility that lasted forty years. Thirdly, although this hostility was expressed in political, ideological and military terms, the decisive battle was fought in economic terms as each nation devoted resources to unproductive military purposes. Finally, the end of the cold war came with the collapse of the dysfunctional Soviet economy. Although, the Soviets lost the cold war, in the light of the ascendancy of its competitors, the United States did not win it.

The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy

Author : Chris Miller
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469630184
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy written by Chris Miller and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-10-13 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For half a century the Soviet economy was inefficient but stable. In the late 1980s, to the surprise of nearly everyone, it suddenly collapsed. Why did this happen? And what role did Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's economic reforms play in the country's dissolution? In this groundbreaking study, Chris Miller shows that Gorbachev and his allies tried to learn from the great success story of transitions from socialism to capitalism, Deng Xiaoping's China. Why, then, were efforts to revitalize Soviet socialism so much less successful than in China? Making use of never-before-studied documents from the Soviet politburo and other archives, Miller argues that the difference between the Soviet Union and China--and the ultimate cause of the Soviet collapse--was not economics but politics. The Soviet government was divided by bitter conflict, and Gorbachev, the ostensible Soviet autocrat, was unable to outmaneuver the interest groups that were threatened by his economic reforms. Miller's analysis settles long-standing debates about the politics and economics of perestroika, transforming our understanding of the causes of the Soviet Union's rapid demise.

War in the History of Economic Thought

Author : Yukihiro Ikeda
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351997017
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book War in the History of Economic Thought written by Yukihiro Ikeda and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.