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The Economics of World War II: Six Great Powers in International Comparison by Mark Harrison (Paperback, 2000)
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This book, the result of an international collaborative project, provides a new quantitative view of the wartime economic experiences of six great powers: the UK, the United States, Germany, Italy, Japan and the USSR. A chapter is devoted to each country, while the introductory chapter presents a comparative overview. It aims to provide a text of statistical reference for those interested in international and comparative economic history, the history of World War II, the history of economic policy, and comparative economic systems.Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-139780521785037
eBay Product ID (ePID)87164853
Product Key Features
Number of Pages332 Pages
Publication NameThe Economics of World War Ii: Six Great Powers in International Comparison
LanguageEnglish
SubjectEconomics
Publication Year2000
TypeTextbook
AuthorMark Harrison
SeriesStudies in Macroeconomic History
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height227 mm
Item Weight510 g
Item Width153 mm
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EditorMark Harrison
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 26 Jun, 2022
A fascinating book that may change your understanding of WWII.
This is a superbly informative book, which for many readers will change their perspective on the Second World War. The first chapter is so helpful in clarfifying events from an economic perspective. The book looks at the economies of UK, USA, Germany, Japan, Italy and the USSR. The book is an international collaboration bringing together the latest economic and historical research. Although fascinating to some, other readers more used to pictures of air attacks and tales of derring-do will find this book unremittingly dull, but it takes all types to make a world! There are lots of statistics and a welcome discussion of variations in estimates from different authors and how they occur. The discussion is mostly morally dispassionate which, when we are dealing with the atrocities carried out by a number of combatants in this conflict, some readers will find this refreshing;others distasteful. The different chapters are written by different authors and this is a little frustrating as it is hard to make like-for-like comparisons. To be fair, it is probably hard to make like-for-like comparisons of wartime economies. I particulrly enjoyed the way the book looked back to WWI, the Great Depression and forward to post-war recovery. Some readers may consider there is bias in some authors who write about their own country. I felt the lack of a conclusions chapter to cover this was unfortunate. To get good value from this book the reader needs to have a pretty good basic understanding of the fundamentals of economics (if you don't know what Keynsianism is, you will be lost in this book) and an overall idea of what happened in WWII because the book doesn't cover this.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
