Economists at war : how a handful of economists helped win and lose the World Wars / Alan Bollard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bollard, Alan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economists--History--20th century.

Economists.

War--Economic aspects--History.

War.

War--Economic aspects.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 321 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2020]

Contents:

1 Fall Down Seven Times Get Up Eight? Takahashi Korekiyo in Japan, 1934-5 p. 1

How Takahashi Learned His Craft p. 1

1934: Saving Japan from Depression p. 17

1935: Disciplining Military Spending p. 24

2 Richest Man in the World? H. H. Kung in China, 1936-7 p. 31

H. H. Kung and the First Family of China p. 31

1936: Collecting Revenue Chinese-Style p. 43

1937: Raising Foreign Aid p. 54

3 The Self-Proclaimed Economic Wizard: Hjalmar Schacht in Germany, 1938-9 p. 63

'One of Germany's Strong Men' p. 63

1938: Filling the Credit Shortage-MEFO Bills p. 83

1939: Trade Deals to Save Foreign Exchange p. 89

4 'No One in Our Age was Cleverer...': Maynard Keynes in Britain, 1939-41 p. 99

'I Work for a Government I Deplore...' p. 99

1939-40: How to Pay for the War p. 112

1941: The International Clearing Union p. 127

5 The Calculating Iceman: Leonid Kantorovich in the USSR, 1941-2 p. 137

The Boy from Petrograd p. 137

1941: Solving Linear Programming p. 148

1942: The Best Use of Economic Resources p. 155

6 The Peacenik who Helped Bombing Tactics: Wassily Leontief in the USA, 1943-4 p. 165

That Other Boy from Petrograd p. 165

1943: Reports on the Russian Economy p. 176

1943-4: Input-Output Analysis and Bombing p. 184

7 'If They Say Bomb at One O'clock...': John von Neumann in the USA, 1944-5 p. 199

'Johnny von Neumann and the Rest of Us' p. 199

1944-5: Bombing, Computing, and Modelling p. 209

1945: Game Theory and Confrontation p. 225

8 Economists at Armistice: The Economists at War's End, 1946 p. 231

"... Even if the A-Bomb Had Not Been Dropped' p. 231

1946: Peace in the East p. 233

1946: Peace in the West p. 240

9 Economists in the Cold War: Money, Computers, and Models, 1946-55 p. 263

Kung Making Hot Money p. 263

Von Neumann in the Cold War p. 266

Kantorovich at War and Peace p. 274

Leontief at Peace p. 288

10 Annex: Economies in Wartime p. 297

Impact of the War on the Major Warring Economies p. 297

Wartime Economic Burdens p. 299

Summary of Wartime Policy Approaches p. 299.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780198846000

0198846002

OCLC:

1125099211

Publisher Number:

99983651010