Economic Theories of Peace and War

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War often comes down to one thing: money. The role of economics in both peace and war is arguably the most important single factor when it comes to the study of defense. The aim of this book is to provide a critical overview of the history of economic thought on defense, peace and war from its eighteenth century origins right up to the present day. Important themes covered within the book include: the German historical school classical economics and defense studies socialism through war or peace econometric analyses of military expenditures This superb book from Fanny Coulomb will be of interest not only to those involved in the burgeoning field of defense economics - it will also be of vital interest to students and academics from international relations, defense studies, philosophy and political science backgrounds.

List of illustrations
Introduction

Part 1 The economy, a factor of peace or war: a theoretical dichotomy which appeared with political economy during the eighteenth century
1 National power benefits from the economy
The mercantilist movement and the improbable peace
The economic bases of national security, according to List
The German historical school: for a pragmatic use of the economic and military power instruments in favor of the national interest
2 The economy as a factor of peace
The physiocrats or the desirable peace
The classical economists: free trade, a factor of peace and prosperity
The triumph of economics as a factor of peace
3 The hesitations and internal differences within each economic perspective as a factor of war and peace
The inoportune war
The avaricious peace: the pessimistic classical school
From James Mill to John Stuart Mill: from classicism to the renewal of the liberal economic analysis of international relations
Part 2 War or peace, resultant of an economic system: new economic analyses on defence-related issues since the mid-nineteenth century
4 War and the threat of war at the heart of the functioning of the capitalism system
Socialism through war or peace: Utopians' pacific reforms versus Marx's revolutionary war
Divergences of Marxist theories about the consequences of militarization on the stability of capitalism
5 ‘Turnulence’ inherent to capitalism
The heterodoxies of the inter-war years: economists confronted with war
The economic study of both world wars and their theoretical repercussions
The diversity of post-1945 heterodox analyses on defence and war
Part 3 From new debates opened by economics on peace and war factors to a resurgence of the political economy perspective
6 Peace and war factors revealed by economic science
The economic analysis of defence strategies
Econometric and formulated analysis of military expenditure and disarmament
7 The strategic dimension of political economy and the concept of ‘economic war’
The economic weapon: what efficiency?
The concept of economic war: support for a new definition of national security
8 Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Figures
1.1 Great phases of dominant debates on war, peace and defence analysis
6.1 Resource allocation in Nation J
6.2 Come of mutual deterrence
8.1 Simplified comparison of the debates on the warlike or peaceful nature of the economy at the end of the eighteenth century and at the beginning of the twenty-first century

Tables
6.1 The main results of Richardson's model
6.2 Some studies based on Richardson's model
6.3 Brito and Intriligator's ‘strategic’ analyses and the point of conflict outbreak
6.4 Some studies in the theories of alliances
6.5 Some studies in the economic foundations of arms-race models
6.6 Examples of studies of the effect of military expenditure on economic growth, concluding on an absence of relation between economic growth and military expenditure
6.7 Some studies concluding on a negative relation between economic growth and military expenditure
6.8 Some studies concluding to a positive relation between economic growth and military expenditure
6.9 Some studies concluding to different impacts of military expenditure on economic growth on each country
6.10 Some studies of the relation between military expenditure and investment
6.11 Study of the relation between military expenditure and employment
7.1 Positive and negative economic sanctions for David Baldwin
7.2 The application of economic values as power resources, according to Klaus Knorr

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