List of Figures and Tables | p. xi |
Preface | p. xiii |
Economics | p. 1 |
Economics | p. 6 |
Opportunity Cost | p. 11 |
Expected Marginal Costs and Benefits | p. 15 |
Substitution | p. 20 |
Diminishing Marginal Returns | p. 24 |
Asymmetric Information and Hidden Characteristics | p. 27 |
Hidden Actions and Incentive Alignments | p. 33 |
Conclusion: Economics-and Military History | p. 39 |
The High Middle Ages, 1000-1300: The Case of the Medieval Castle and the Opportunity Cost of Warfare | p. 45 |
Opportunity Cost and Warfare | p. 49 |
The Ubiquity of Castles | p. 51 |
The Cost of Castling | p. 53 |
The Advantages of Castles | p. 59 |
The Cost of Armies | p. 66 |
Castle Building and the Other Principles of Economics | p. 72 |
Conclusion | p. 76 |
The Renaissance, 1300-1600: The Case of the Condottieri and the Military Labor Market | p. 80 |
The Principal-Agent Problem | p. 83 |
Demand, Supply, and Recruitment | p. 85 |
Contracts and Pay | p. 89 |
Control and Contract Evolution | p. 100 |
The Development of Permanent Armies | p. 104 |
Condottieri and the Other Principles of Economics | p. 114 |
Conclusion | p. 117 |
The Age of Battle, 1618-1815: The Case of Costs, Benefits, and the Decision to Offer Battle | p. 119 |
Expected Marginal Costs and Benefits of Battle | p. 122 |
The 1600s: Gustavus Adolphus and Raimondo de Montecuccoli | p. 127 |
The 1700s: Marlborough, de Saxe, and Frederick the Great | p. 137 |
Napoleonic Warfare | p. 147 |
The Age of Battle and the Other Principles of Economics | p. 154 |
Conclusion | p. 157 |
The Age of Revolution, 1789-1914: The Case of the American Civil War and the Economics of Information Asymmetry | p. 159 |
Information and Warfare | p. 163 |
North, South, and the Search for Information | p. 165 |
Major Eastern Campaigns through Gettysburg | p. 168 |
Grant in Virginia | p. 181 |
The American Civil War and the Other Principles of Economics | p. 190 |
Conclusion | p. 194 |
The Age of the World Wars, 1914-1945: The Case of Diminishing Marginal Returns to the Strategic Bombing of Germany in World War II | p. 197 |
A Strategic Bombing Production Function | p. 201 |
Bombing German War Production | p. 207 |
Bombing the Supply Chain and the Civilian Economy | p. 213 |
Bombing German Morale | p. 219 |
Assessing the Effect of Strategic Bombing | p. 224 |
Strategic Bombing and the Other Principles of Economics | p. 227 |
Conclusion | p. 235 |
The Age of the Cold War, 1945-1991: The Case of Capital-Labor Substitution and France's Force de Frappe | p. 244 |
History of the Force de Frappe | p. 248 |
The Force Post-De Gaulle | p. 257 |
Justifying the Force | p. 260 |
The Force's Effect on France's Conventional Arms | p. 267 |
Substituting Nuclear for Conventional Forces | p. 272 |
The Force de Frappe and the Other Principles of Economics | p. 282 |
Conclusion | p. 285 |
Economics and Military History in the Twenty-first Century | p. 287 |
Economics of Terrorism | p. 289 |
Economics of Military Manpower | p. 298 |
Economics of Private Military Companies | p. 307 |
Economics, Historiography, and Military History | p. 319 |
Conclusion | p. 322 |
Notes | p. 329 |
References | p. 367 |
Index | p. 387 |
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