Economics of defense and reconstruction

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Economics of Defense and Reconstruction: L. Pamphlet Series Paperback – March 9, by League for Industrial Democracy (Author) See all 3 formats and editions Hide other formats and editions. Price New from Used from Author: League for Industrial Democracy.

Defense economics examines peace as well as defense issues, using such macroeconomic and microeconomic tools as growth theory, static optimization, dynamic optimization, comparative statics, game theory and econometrics.

This book provides an up-to-date survey of the by: This Element surveys the field of defense, peace, and war economics with particular emphasis on the contributions made by Austrian economists.

I first review treatments of defense, peace, and war by the classical economists. I then discuss the rise of a distinct and systematic defense, peace, and war economics field of study starting in the s. Economics of defense and reconstruction: symposium by a score of speakers at Lake Mahopac Summer Conference of the League for Industrial Democracy.

Author: League for Industrial Democracy. Apart from the critique of contemporary mainstream economics, the primary appeal of this book is the author's research upon a forgotten period in intellectual history.

There are almost no analyses of the alteration of the theoretical foundations of the discipline of economics/5(4). Economics of the Civil War> is an excellent little book for anyone whose interest in the War Between the States goes beyond its battles and leaders.

Mark Thornton and by: I agree with the others here who commented on this book as a history of the "trust issue" and the rise of large-scale capital enterprises. However, the opening portion of the book deals also, as background, with the impetus in America toward economic imperialism beginning not later than the post-Civil War era and in doing so presents another means of understanding it, in addition Cited by: Journals & Books; Help; Handbook of Defense Economics.

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makes economic reconstruction necessary, demanding, and promising. Failure is directly linked to the large human, financial, and environmental consequences associated with the economics of war—as has happened in Afghanistan, a perfect example of reconstruction gone sour as the economics of peace have not taken hold since the military intervention.

In May President Johnson submitted a Reconstruction plan for comment to his cabinet. All cabinet members were originally appointed by the recently martyred Abraham Lincoln and all approved of Johnson’s plan.

It was modeled after Lincoln’s December 8, proclamation noted earlier. Johnson demanded that the previous Rebel states meet. Efficiency in utilisation of resources is not only an economic imperative but vital for defence preparedness. In view of this, the Defence Economics and Industry Centre was created in to promote research on various economic aspects of India's defence.

Defense economics is the study of both defense and peace issues, using the tools of modern economics. It covers a range of issues, including nuclear proliferation, resource disputes, environmental externalities, ethnic conflicts, and terrorism, all of which present grave threats to peace and security.

Politics and Economics of the War In the North, the Republican‐controlled Congress implemented the party's domestic program. The Pacific Railroad Act () authorized the construction of the first transcontinental line from both Omaha, Nebraska, and.

Well before the end of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln began formulating a plan to restore the Confederate states to the Union.

His Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction (December ) provided that if at least ten percent of a state's voters in the election accepted emancipation and took an oath of allegiance to the United States, then the state.

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New York, National Industrial Conference Board []. Read this book on Questia. Read the full-text online edition of A Reconstruction of Economics (). Home» Browse» Books» Book details, A Reconstruction of Economics. A Reconstruction of Economics. By Kenneth E. Boulding.

Reconstruction, in U.S. history, the period (–77) that followed the American Civil War and during which attempts were made to redress the inequities of slavery and its political, social, and economic legacy and to solve the problems arising from the readmission to the Union of the 11 states that had seceded at or before the outbreak of war.

Long portrayed by many historians. accordance with Office of Management and Budget (OMB)1 and Department of Defense (DoD)2 direction, the analytical framework of a BCA is similar to an EA and is governed by this guide.

This guide uses the single term “Economic Analysis” as File Size: KB. Page - however, the warning contained in the elections of was heeded, and this masterpiece of evasion was presented: "The guarantee by Congress of equal suffrage ~to all loyal men at the South was demanded by every consideration of public safety, of gratitude and of justice, and must be maintained: while the question of suffrage in all the loyal states properly.

In the end, Reconstruction did not offer former slaves an economic way out of their most cases, land was not redistributed, leaving former slaves without the capital to own their own farms.

Instead, a system emerged in which former plantation owners retained much of their power, leaving former slaves to make a living by means of sharecropping and tenant farming .You can’t take Southern secession seriously because of slavery. Illinois is worth pondering because Lincoln supported the laws against blacks because he did not think that free blacks could ever mix with whites.

A superior position was assigned to .Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution is an uninformative slog which paradoxically is still deserving of the all the many prizes it received when it was published in It won awards because of its brilliant description of the political process of the reconstruction/5().