Guns and Butter examines the causes and consequences of war from a political economy perspective, taking as its premise … deeper insights into war and peace choices than the standard state-centric approach. Their contributions offer both …: war as an equilibrium phenomenon rather than an exogenous process; the interaction of politics, economics, and …

decade before World War I, there was only about $1 billion of interest-bearing Treasury debt outstanding, spread out over … War I to a multibillion dollar market on the eve of World War II. Garbade focuses on Treasury debt management policies … conditions. Garbade's account covers the Treasury market in the two decades before World War I, how the Treasury financed the …

repetition of history. In The Prosperity of Vice, the influential French economist Daniel Cohen shows that violence, rather than … nations? Cohen guides us through history, describing the European discovery of the “philosopher’s stone”: the possibility of …

-- pioneers a new approach to the comparative analysis of societies in the past. Using techniques of event history analysis, the … scholars in economics, environmental studies, demography, history, and sociology as well as the general reader interested in …

J. D. Bernal's monumental work Science in History is the first full-scale attempt to analyze the relationship between … science and society throughout history, from the perfection of the first flint hand ax to the construction of the hydrogen … social sciences and provides an avowedly Marxist outline of their history and of the social and political tendencies of our …

effective administration of an expanding business. The author summarizes the history of the expansion of the nation's largest …

worlds of literature, history, and philosophy. And yet, as Steven Brams shows, game theory can illuminate the rational … in law, history, and philosophy. Brams's strategic exegesis of texts helps the reader relate characters' goals to their …

-- pioneers a new approach to the comparative analysis of societies in the past. Using techniques of event history analysis, the … scholars in economics, environmental studies, demography, history, and sociology as well as the general reader interested in … these subjects. Eurasian Population and Family History series …