Castles, battles, & bombs (Record no. 93888)

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System control number (CaPaEBR)ebr10265887
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System control number (OCoLC)304605070
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Original cataloging agency CaPaEBR
Transcribing agency CaPaEBR
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Classification number HB195
Item number .B69 2008eb
082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 355.02/73
Edition number 22
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Brauer, Jurgen,
Dates associated with a name 1957-
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Castles, battles, & bombs
Medium [electronic resource] :
Remainder of title how economics explains military history /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Jurgen Brauer and Hubert van Tuyll.
246 3# - VARYING FORM OF TITLE
Title proper/short title Castles, battles, and bombs
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Chicago :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. University of Chicago Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2008.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xix, 403 p. :
Other physical details ill., maps.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-385) and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Preface -- 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.
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Type of reproduction Electronic reproduction.
Place of reproduction Palo Alto, Calif. :
Agency responsible for reproduction ebrary,
Date of reproduction 2013.
Note about reproduction Available via World Wide Web.
-- Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element War
General subdivision Economic aspects
-- History.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Military history.
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Genre/form data or focus term Electronic books.
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Personal name Van Tuyll, Hubert P.
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Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10265887">http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10265887</a>
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