Following the recent terrorist attacks in Paris, the European media emphatically pronounced that billions of Euros were wiped from tourism related stocks. The theoretical relationship of the industry with such unexpected non-macro incidents received moderate academic coverage. Nevertheless, the...

Following the recent terrorist attacks in Paris, the European media emphatically pronounced that billions of euros were wiped from tourism related stocks. This comes at a troublesome time for the tourism industry, in the midst of a global financial crisis, and the unpredictable rise of radical...

Economists and war : introduction / FABRIZIO BIENTINESI, ROSARIO PATALANO -- An Austrian point of view on total war : Stefan T. Possony / FABRIZIO BIENTINESI -- The evolution of the economic thought confronted with World War I : and the reparations' issue / FANNY COULOMB -- Third way, liberalism...

Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Changing strategies and global power in the long eighteenth century -- Eighteenth-century realities and historiographical approaches -- Administering the fiscal-military state : ordinary revenues : trusting in a consumers world -- Increasing...

The question whether and how warfare has influenced the development of advanced Western welfare states is contested. So far, scholarly work either focused on the trade-off between military and social spending or on case studies of individual countries. What is missing, however, is a systematic...

Kriegerische und kriegsähnliche gewaltsame Auseinandersetzungen haben eine Vielzahl von Folgen, von denen die physischen Verheerungen lediglich einen Teilbereich darstellen. Unter anderem rücken die Auswirkungen auf Verhalten und Psyche mehr und mehr in den Fokus wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher...

Introduction -- The recent history of PMCs -- Literature review -- Methodology -- Theoretical approach and terminology -- Research design -- Main analysis -- The international legitimacy of the ICoC [International Code of Conduct] -- Final conclusion -- Addendum : the business of human rights...

"Although most economists maintain a mistrust of a government's goals when it intervenes in an economy, many continue to trust its actual ability. They retain, in other words, a faith in state competence. For this faith, they adduce no evidence. Sharing little skepticism about the government's...

This book offers a completely new and unique introduction to the economics of international relations. It treats all the traditional major themes of international relations theory while giving each a refreshing new twist with the incorporation of the influence of private power, particularly in...

"In January 1969 as the President Richard Milhous Nixon pledged to make the United States a calmer place, foster peace in the world and strengthen America's position in the world, damaged by the conflict in Vietnam. While Nixon's first priority was ending the War, the economy and the...

In this comprehensive and innovative Civil War history, R. Douglas Hurt traces the decline and fall of agriculture in the Confederate States of America, the backbone of the Southern economy, which, alongside military strength, Southerners believed would ensure their independence. In a sweeping...