04272nam a2200397 a 4500001001200000003000800012006001900020007001500039008004100054010001700095015001900112016001800131020003900149020003600188020003800224020003500262040002100297035002100318050002300339082001800362100002700380245013500407246003200542260005100574300003100625504006400656505273000720533015203450650003603602650002203638655002903660700002503689710001703714856012603731999001703857ebr10265887CaPaEBRm        u        cr cn|||||||||070802s2008    iluab   sb    001 0 eng    z  2007031667  aGBA8174332bnb7 z0145191242Uk  z9780226071633 (cloth : alk. paper)  z0226071634 (cloth : alk. paper)  z9780226071640 (pbk. : alk. paper)  z0226071642 (pbk. : alk. paper)  aCaPaEBRcCaPaEBR  a(OCoLC)30460507014aHB195b.B69 2008eb04a355.02/732221 aBrauer, Jurgen,d1957-10aCastles, battles, & bombsh[electronic resource] :bhow economics explains military history /cJurgen Brauer and Hubert van Tuyll.3 aCastles, battles, and bombs  aChicago :bUniversity of Chicago Press,c2008.  axix, 403 p. :bill., maps.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 367-385) and index.0 aPreface -- Economics -- Economics -- Principle I: Opportunity cost -- Principle II: Expected marginal costs and benefits -- Principle III: Substitution -- Principle IV: Diminishing marginal returns -- Principle V: asymmetric information and hidden characteristics -- Principle VI: Hidden actions and incentive alignments -- Conclusion: economics--and military history -- The high Middle Ages, 1000-1300: The case of the medieval castle and the opportunity cost of warfare -- Opportunity cost and warfare -- The ubiquity of castles -- The cost of castling -- The advantages of castles -- The cost of armies -- Castle building and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- The Renaissance, 1300-1600: the case of the condottieri and the military labor market -- The principal-agent problem -- Demand, supply, and recruitment -- Contracts and pay -- Control and contract evolution -- The development of permanent armies -- Condottieri and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- The age of battle, 1618-1815: the case of costs, benefits, and the decision to offer battle -- Expected marginal costs and benefits of battle -- The 1600s: Gustavus Adolphus and Raimondo de Montecuccoli -- The 1700s: Marlborough, de Saxe, and Frederick the Great -- Napoleonic warfare -- The age of battle and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- The age of revolution, 1789-1914: the case of the American Civil War and the economics of information asymmetry -- Information and warfare -- North, South, and the search for information -- Major Eastern campaigns through Gettysburg -- Grant in Virginia -- The American Civil War and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- The age of the world wars, 1914-1945: the case of diminishing marginal returns to the strategic bombing of Germany in World War II -- A strategic bombing production function -- Bombing German war production -- Bombing the supply chain and the civilian economy -- Bombing German morale -- Assessing the effect of strategic bombing -- Strategic bombing and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- The age of the Cold War, 1945-1991: the case of capital-labor substitution and France's Force de Frappe -- History of the Force de Frappe -- The force post-De Gaulle -- Justifying the force -- The force's effect on France's conventional arms -- Substituting nuclear for conventional forces -- The Force de Frappe and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- Economics and military history in the twenty-first century -- Economics of terrorism -- Economics of military manpower -- Economics of private military companies -- Economics, historiography, and military history -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.  aElectronic reproduction.bPalo Alto, Calif. :cebrary,d2013.nAvailable via World Wide Web.nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 0aWarxEconomic aspectsxHistory. 0aMilitary history. 7aElectronic books.2local1 aVan Tuyll, Hubert P.2 aebrary, Inc.40uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10265887zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view  c25352d25352