This Element introduces students, policy-makers, politicians, governments and business-people to this new discipline within economics. It presents the recent hi
This Element surveys the field of defense, peace, and war economics with particular emphasis on the contributions made by Austrian economists. I first review tr
In this comprehensive study, 15 African experts describe and analyse the military budgetary processes and degree of parliamentary oversight and control in nine
John Maynard Keynes, then a rising young economist, participated in the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 as chief representative of the British Treasury and advis
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