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100 1 Brauer, Jurgen,|d1957-
245 10 Castles, battles, & bombs :|bhow economics explains
military history /|cJurgen Brauer and Hubert van Tuyll.
260 Chicago :|bUniversity of Chicago Press,|c2008.
300 xix, 403 p. :|bill., maps ;|c24 cm.
505 0 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.
650 0 War|xEconomic aspects|xHistory.
650 0 Military history.
700 1 Van Tuyll, Hubert P.
