02174nam a22003258a 4500001001600000003000700016005001700023006001900040007001500059008004100074020002600115020002900141020003000170040002400200050002400224082002000248100002800268245015300296264005200449300005900501336002600560337002600586338003600612490005000648500007300698520092000771776003501691830005101726856007101777CR9781139046534UkCbUP20180107143416.0m|||||o||d||||||||cr||||||||||||110303s2012||||enk     s     ||1 0|eng|d  a9781139046534 (ebook)  z9780521859400 (hardback)  z9780521676731 (paperback)  aUkCbUPcUkCbUPerda00aHC110.D4 bR58 201200a330.973/0912231 aRockoff, Hugh,eauthor.10aAmerica's Economic Way of War :bWar and the US Economy from the Spanish-American War to the Persian Gulf War / [electronic resource]cHugh Rockoff. 1aCambridge :bCambridge University Press,c2012.  a1 online resource (370 pages) :bdigital, PDF file(s).  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier0 aNew Approaches to Economic and Social History  aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015).  aHow did economic and financial factors determine how America waged war in the twentieth century? This important new book exposes the influence of economics and finance on the questions of whether the nation should go to war, how wars would be fought, how resources would be mobilized, and the long-term consequences for the American economy. Ranging from the Spanish-American War to the Gulf War, Hugh Rockoff explores the ways in which war can provide unique opportunities for understanding the basic principles of economics as wars produce immense changes in monetary and fiscal policy and so provide a wealth of information about how these policies actually work. He shows that wars have been more costly to the United States than most Americans realize as a substantial reliance on borrowing from the public, money creation and other strategies to finance America's war efforts have hidden the true cost of war.08iPrint version: z9780521859400 0aNew Approaches to Economic and Social History.40uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139046534zCambridge Books Online