The aim of the paper is to explore the role played by cost accounting in Italy's Industrial Mobilization System and in the largest firm manufacturing weaponry, Ansaldo of Genoa, during WWI. While in other countries such as the UK and the US, efficiency in buying and managing war material was an...

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations, acronyms, technical terms, and conventions -- Note on references -- The dictator and defense / Mark Harrison -- Before Stalinism : the early 1920s / Andrei Sokolov -- Hierarchies and markets : the defense industry under Stalin / Mark Harrison and...