Product Description
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.

About the Author
Fanny Coulomb is lecturer in Economic Science at the University Pierre Mendes of Grenoble, France.

Contents
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 favour 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 inopportune 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 ‘Turbulence’ 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 formalized analyses 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