Economic History of Warfare and State Formation

This edited volume represents the latest research on intersections of war, state formation, and political economy, i.e., how conflicts have affected short- and long-run development of economies and the formation (or destruction) of states and their political economies. The contributors come from different fields of social and human sciencies, all featuring an interdisciplinary ...

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This edited volume represents the latest research on intersections of war, state formation, and political economy, i.e., how conflicts have affected short- and long-run development of economies and the formation (or destruction) of states and their political economies. The contributors come from different fields of social and human sciencies, all featuring an interdisciplinary approach to the study of societal development. The types of big issues analyzed in this volume include the formation of European and non-European states in the early modern and modern period, the emergence of various forms of states and eventually modern democracies with extensive welfare states, the violent upheavals that influenced these processes, the persistence of dictatorships and non-democratic forms of government, and the arrival of total war and its consequences, especially in the context of twentieth-century world wars. One of the key themes is the dichotomy between democracies and dictatorships; namely, what were the origins of their emergence and evolution, why did some revolutions succeed and other fail, and why did democracies, on the whole, emerge victorious in the twentieth-century age of total wars? The contributions in this book are written with academic and non-academic audiences in mind, and both will find the broad themes discussed in this volume intuitive and useful.

Part I Wars and State Formation in the Short and Long Run
Paths to Inclusive Political Institutions ....................................... 3
Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson ˘
States and Development: Early Modern India, China, and the Great Divergence ..................................................... 51
Bishnupriya Gupta, Debin Ma, and Tirthankar Roy
Part II Political Economy of Democracies and Dictatorships
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Part I Wars and State Formation in the Short and Long Run
Paths to Inclusive Political Institutions ....................................... 3
Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson ˘
States and Development: Early Modern India, China, and the Great Divergence ..................................................... 51
Bishnupriya Gupta, Debin Ma, and Tirthankar Roy
Part II Political Economy of Democracies and Dictatorships
Decentralization, Fiscal Structure, and Local State Capacity in Late-Imperial Russia ........................................................ 73
Steven Nafziger
Historicizing Divergence: A Comparative Analysis of the Revolutionary Crises in Russia and Finland.......................... 103
Pavel Osinsky and Jari Eloranta
Repressions and Punishment Under Stalin: Evidence from the Soviet Archives ....................................................... 117
Andrei Markevich
Part III Economic History of the World Wars
Myths of the Great War ........................................................ 135
Mark Harrison
War and Inflation in the United States from the Revolution to the Persian Gulf War ........................................................ 159
Hugh Rockoff
Lessons Learned? British Mobilization for the Two World Wars ......... 197
Stephen Broadberry and Peter Howlett
World War II and US Economic Performance............................... 221
Price V. Fishback and Taylor Jaworski
The Mirage of the German Armament Miracle in World War II ......... 243
Jonas Scherner and Jochen Streb
Neutrality in War ............................................................... 259
Eric Golson
Index .............................................................................. 279
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