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America's economic way of war : war and the US economy from the Spanish-American War to the first Gulf War /
"How did economic and financial factors determine how America waged war in the twentieth century? This important new book exposes the influence of economics and finance on the questions of whether the nation should go to war, how wars would be fought, how resources would be mobilized, and the l...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | New approaches to economic and social history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "How did economic and financial factors determine how America waged war in the twentieth century? This important new book exposes the influence of economics and finance on the questions of whether the nation should go to war, how wars would be fought, how resources would be mobilized, and the long-term consequences for the American economy. Ranging from the Spanish-American War to the Gulf War, Hugh Rockoff explores the ways in which war can provide unique opportunities for understanding the basic principles of economics as wars produce immense changes in monetary and fiscal policy and so provide a wealth of information about how these policies actually work. He shows that wars have been more costly to the United States than most Americans realize as a substantial reliance on borrowing from the public, money creation and other strategies to finance America's war efforts have hidden the true cost of war"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 357 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139379557 1139379550 9781139376693 1139376691 9781139046534 1139046535 9786613640819 6613640816 1139365592 9781139365598 1107225744 9781107225749 1139378120 9781139378123 1139375261 9781139375269 1139371274 9781139371278 |