Economic History of Warfare and State Formation (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789811093982)

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


Author: Jari Eloranta
ISBN-10: 9811093989
ISBN-13: 9789811093982
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 04/30/2018
Pages: 283
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.65d