Economists and War

Fabrizio Bientinesi is Associate Professor of Economic Thought in the Department of Economics and Management at the University of Pisa, Italy.Rosario Patalano is Associated Professor of the History of Economic Thought in the Department of Law at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy, and Guest Professor at the University Lumière Lyon 2, France.

• Introduction Fabrizio Bientinesi and Rosario Patalano1 An ‘Austrian’ Point of View on Total War: Stefan T. Possony Fabrizio Bientinesi2 The Evolution of the Economic Thought Confronted with World War I and the Reparations’ Issue Fanny Coulomb3 Third Way, Liberalism and the Crisis of Civilization: Wilhelm Röpke Facing the Second World War Alberto Giordano4 From Pacifism to Political Realism: The Economics and Sociology of War in Vilfredo Pareto Terenzio Maccabelli5 The Economics of Peace in the History of Political Economy Fabio Masini6 Italian Economic Analyses of the First World War: ‘Historical Materialism’ Versus ‘Pure Economics’ Luca Michelini7 Changes in the Pacifism of Akamatsu Kaname from the Interwar Period to WWII Tadashi Ohtsuki8 War in Sismondi’s Interpretation of Modern Capitalism: Fresh Analytical Perspectives Letizia Pagliai9 How to Pay for the War: Military Spending and War Funding in Italian Economic Thought (1890–1918) Rosario Patalano10 Productive Powers and War in Friedrich List’s Theory of Economic Development Stefano Spalletti11 Keynes on the Role of the ‘Insane and Irrational Springs of Wickedness’ in War Ted Winslow