The Economics of World War I

"...a quite useful reference work, in addition to its importance as a description and analytical interpretation of the impact of warfare...all of the essays are written clearly, present considerable data, and are analytically sophisticated. This is a superb collection on a very important topic, and will repay reading by all economic historians."
- EH.NET, Stanley L. Engerman, University of Rochester

"...it is as a synthesis of the major economic statistics of the various powers of the war that the study is most valuable for understanding World War I. The amount of information about the economies of the states examined, for instance, is staggering and oftentimes fascinating. In addition, the book contains nearly 150 figures and tables that relate useful data, covering a wide range of subjects: GDP; battle and non-battle deaths; labor statistics; inflation; industrial and agricultural production--and a whole host of other interesting and important economic statistics."
- H-German, Nathan N. Orgill, Department of History, Duke University

"The editors' introduction is a valuable summary, and the country chapters provide consistent data for comparison and analysis." - Peter Temin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"The authors have succeeded admirably in offering a wide-ranging, empirically rich, and analytically informative comparison of economics at war between 1914 and 1918." - Larry Petereson, City University of New York The Historian

Stephen Broadberry is Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick. His previous books include The Productivity Race: British Manufacturing in International Perspective (1997). Mark Harrison writes about the history and economics of Russia, conflict, defence and security. He is a Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick. He is also a research fellow of the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Birmingham and of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University.

Introduction Stephen Broadberry and Mark Harrison; 1. The economics of World War I: an overview Stephen Broadberry and Mark Harrison; 2. The pity of peace: Germany's economy at war, 1914-1918 and beyond Albrecht Ritschl; 3. Austria-Hungary's economy in World War I Max-Stephan Schulze; 4. The Ottoman economy in World War I Sevket Pamuk; 5. Between the devil and the deep blue sea: the Dutch economy during World War I Herman de Jong; 6. Was the Great War a watershed? The economics of World War I in France Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur; 7. The United Kingdom during World War I: business as usual? Stephen Broadberry and Peter Howlett; 8. Poor Russia, poor show: mobilising a backward economy for war, 1914-1917 Peter Gatrell; 9. Italy at war, 1915-1918 Francesco Galassi and Mark Harrison; 10. Until its over, over there: the US economy in World War I Hugh Rockoff; Index.