Castles, battles, & bombs how economics explains military history /
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2008.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Economics
- Economics
- Principle I: Opportunity cost
- Principle II: Expected marginal costs and benefits
- Principle III: Substitution
- Principle IV: Diminishing marginal returns
- Principle V: asymmetric information and hidden characteristics
- Principle VI: Hidden actions and incentive alignments
- Conclusion: economics--and military history
- The high Middle Ages, 1000-1300: The case of the medieval castle and the opportunity cost of warfare
- Opportunity cost and warfare
- The ubiquity of castles
- The cost of castling
- The advantages of castles
- The cost of armies
- Castle building and the other principles of economics
- Conclusion
- The Renaissance, 1300-1600: the case of the condottieri and the military labor market
- The principal-agent problem
- Demand, supply, and recruitment
- Contracts and pay
- Control and contract evolution
- The development of permanent armies
- Condottieri and the other principles of economics
- Conclusion
- The age of battle, 1618-1815: the case of costs, benefits, and the decision to offer battle
- Expected marginal costs and benefits of battle
- The 1600s: Gustavus Adolphus and Raimondo de Montecuccoli
- The 1700s: Marlborough, de Saxe, and Frederick the Great
- Napoleonic warfare
- The age of battle and the other principles of economics
- Conclusion
- The age of revolution, 1789-1914: the case of the American Civil War and the economics of information asymmetry
- Information and warfare
- North, South, and the search for information
- Major Eastern campaigns through Gettysburg
- Grant in Virginia
- The American Civil War and the other principles of economics
- Conclusion
- The age of the world wars, 1914-1945: the case of diminishing marginal returns to the strategic bombing of Germany in World War II
- A strategic bombing production function
- Bombing German war production
- Bombing the supply chain and the civilian economy
- Bombing German morale
- Assessing the effect of strategic bombing
- Strategic bombing and the other principles of economics
- Conclusion
- The age of the Cold War, 1945-1991: the case of capital-labor substitution and France's Force de Frappe
- History of the Force de Frappe
- The force post-De Gaulle
- Justifying the force
- The force's effect on France's conventional arms
- Substituting nuclear for conventional forces
- The Force de Frappe and the other principles of economics
- Conclusion
- Economics and military history in the twenty-first century
- Economics of terrorism
- Economics of military manpower
- Economics of private military companies
- Economics, historiography, and military history
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index.