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

Wartime is not just about military success. This text tells a different story - about a group of remarkable economists who used their skills to help their countries fight their battles during the Chinese-Japanese War, Second World War, and the Cold War

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Main Author: Bollard, Alan (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020
Edition:First edition
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505 0 |a Fall down seven times get up eight? Takahashi Korekiyo in Japan, 1934-5 -- Richest man in the world? H.H. Kung in China, 1936-7 -- The self-proclaimed economic wizard : Hjalmar Schacht in Germany, 1938-9 -- 'No one in our age was cleverer ... ' : Maynard Keynes in Britain, 1939-41 -- The calculating iceman : Leonid Kantorovich in the USSR, 1941-2 -- The peacenik who helped bombing tactics : Wassily Leontief in the USA, 1943-4 -- 'If they say bomb at one o'clock ... ' : John von Neumann in the USA, 1944-5 -- Economists at armistice : the economists at war's end, 1946 -- Economists in the Cold War : money, computers, and models, 1946-55 -- Annex : economies in wartime. 
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