fight and endure war, the government elites began to provide public goods, reduced rent extraction and adopted policies to …

During World War II Americans were called upon repeatedly to salvage raw materials for the war effort, often during …

belligerents: Britain, France, Italy, Germany, and Austria-Hungary. At the outbreak of the war, these nations suspended … convertibility of their currencies into gold with the promise that after the war each would restore convertibility at the old par …. However, once convertibility was suspended, the value of each currency depended on the outcome of the war. I decompose …

mobilization for World War II to test the big push hypothesis in the context of postwar industrialization in the American South … of wartime investment. Despite a boom in manufacturing activity during the war, the evidence is not consistent with …

a higher fraction of women working not only for the generation directly affected by the war, but also for the next …

The process by which the US economy was mobilized during World War I was the subject of considerable criticism both at … of active US involvement was remarkable. The United States entered the war in 1917 having made only limited preparations … force in the 15 to 44 age bracket. Overall in 1918, one fifth or more of the nation's resources was devoted to the war …

structure with little federal control and a low rate of labor participation in the military. This paper examines war … American Civil War. The empirical evidence shows the war resulted in a significant temporary misallocation of resources, by … rapid period of catching up, suggesting that the war did not lead to a permanent misallocation of inputs, and did not long …