War in the History of Economic Thought

Yukihiro Ikeda is Professor of History of Economic Thought at Keio University, Japan. Annalisa Rosselli is Professor of History of Economic Thought at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy.

Introduction (Yukihiro Ikeda and Annalisa Rosselli)

Part 1: Before the two World Wars

1. The Food Weapon: Milestones in the History of a Concept (17th-19th centuries) (Alain Clément and Riccardo Soliani)

2. Why the Wars? And How to Pay for them? A Comparison between Hume and Smith (Daniel Diatkine)

3. Hume and Smith on Morality and War (Shinji Nohara)

4. Industrialism and War in the French Social Sciences in Early 19th Century (Philippe Steiner)

5. Studying Economics as War Effort: The First Economic Treatise in the Ottoman Empire and its Militaristic Motivations (Deniz T. Kilincoglu)

6. Economic Non-intervention and Military Non-intervention in John Stuart Mill’s Thought (Philippe Gillig)

Part 2: Japan and World War Two

7. New Liberalism in Interwar Japan: A Study of the Magazine The New Liberalism (Simpei Yamamoto)

8. Economic Research in National Higher Commercial Schools in Wartime Japan (Tadashi Ohtsuki)

9. Yasuma Takata’s Theory on Power and Race (Tsutomu Hashimoto)

Part 3: Lessons from the 20th Century World Wars

10. How to Avoid War: Federalism in L. Robbins and W. H. Beveridge (Atsushi Komine)

11. The Wartime Economy and the Theory of Price Controls (Paolo Paesani and Annalisa Rosselli)

12. From Barter to Monetary Economy: Ordoliberal Views on the Post-WWII German Economic Order (Raphaël Fèvre)

13. The Transformation of Kenneth Arrow’s Attitude toward War (Nao Saito)

Index