explores the development of programs destined to impose and sustain some causes that may lead to the salvation of humanity from …

Economies of War and Peace: Economic, Legal, and Political Perspectives brings together recent, cutting-edge research … on economic factors affecting peace and war. This important area of continuing research was the focus of an international … perspectives on the economic foundations of peace, violence and war within countries, connections between international trade and …

Economic Development, Inequality and War shows how economic decline, income inequality, pervasive rent seeking by … ruling elites, political authoritarianism, military centrality and competition for mineral exports contribute to war and …

Contents: Preface -- 1. War is a racket: in memory of Smedley Butler -- 2. The causes of war -- 3. War versus peace …: the outcome of a binary process -- 4. Imperialism as an enterprise -- 5. Wars of aggression and false flags -- 6. War … profiteering, the military-industrial complex and the deep state -- 7. A taxonomy of war profiteers -- 8. Banks as war profiteers …

1. An Austrian point of view on total war : Stefan T. Possony / Fabrizio Bientinesi -- 2. The evolution of the economic … thought confronted with World War I : and the reparations' issue / Fanny Coulomb -- 3. Third way, liberalism and the crisis of … civilization : Wilhelm Rо¨pke : facing the Second World War / Alberto Giordano -- 4. From pacifism to political realism : the …

This Element surveys the field of defense, peace, and war economics with particular emphasis on the contributions made … by Austrian economists. I first review treatments of defense, peace, and war by the classical economists. I then discuss … the rise of a distinct and systematic defense, peace, and war economics field of study starting in the 1960s. Next, I …