02205nam a22003378a 4500 CR9781139046534 UkCbUP 20180107143416.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 110303s2012||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9781139046534 (ebook) 9780521859400 (hardback) 9780521676731 (paperback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda HC110.D4 R58 2012 330.973/091 23 Rockoff, Hugh, author. America's Economic Way of War : War and the US Economy from the Spanish-American War to the Persian Gulf War / [electronic resource] Hugh Rockoff. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012. 1 online resource (370 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier New Approaches to Economic and Social History Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). How 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. Print version: 9780521859400 New Approaches to Economic and Social History. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139046534 Cambridge Books Online 236754 236754