Throughout human history, polities have found it necessary to devote resources towards maintaining security from other polities or to prosecute a war against them. This paper explores the evolution of the war economy, as well as the circumstances which mandated and instruments which allowed the...

How does the permanent war economy interact, and subsume, the private, non-military economy? Can the two remain at a distance while sharing resource pools? This paper argues that they cannot. Once the U.S. embarked upon the path of permanent war, starting with World War II, the result was a...

This article analyses the forced labour system created in Spain during the Civil War and maintained during the Francoist dictatorship, paying special attention to the economic logic that led the state and private enterprises to draw a profit from this kind of punishment. In order to deal with...

This paper investigates, by means of material flow analysis, the supply management of iron during a historical period of increased demand and induced shortage. The Austrian economy during World War I, when numerous raw materials had to be substituted by secondary sources, is analyzed as an example.

In the 1930s and 1940s, the Japanese coal industry experienced huge fluctuations in production and labor productivity. In this paper, I explore the micro-aspects of labour productivity change in the coal industry during World War II using mine-level data, compiled from official statistics and...

The fiscal theory of the price level makes a distinction between two kinds of policy-making regimes : a Ricardian and a non-Ricardian one. We analyse here the conditions under which these regimes can apply to different periods, some of them being troubled periods, in a given economy. The case...

The literature on war economies argues that prolonged civil wars have an economic logic: certain groups may obtain material gains from committing acts of violence and hence resist peacebuilding efforts. Objective tests of these predictions have so far been limited, as corruption and conflict...

El ensayo es una síntesis de los procesos de articulación de los mercados de violenciaentre dos economías de guerra, que se presentaron en América Latina en las décadasde los ochenta y noventa del siglo pasado. La forma como los mercados ilegales dearmas de las guerras centroamericanas se...

This paper contributes to the historiographical debate about the impact of forced labour in the Spanish economy within the context of Civil War and immediate post‐war. Despite the advances made by historians, some key factors (such as the workforce supply‐demand, the costs and benefits of...

We study elections in which one party (the strong party) controls a source of political unrest; e.g., this party could instigate riots if it lost the election. We show that the strong party is more likely to win the election when there is less information about its ability to cause unrest. This...