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 …

capability of private networks of commanders, suppliers, merchants and financiers who managed the conduct of war on land and at …

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 …