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Economics and modern warfare the invisible fist of the market

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Improving on our body of tactical knowledge, Economics of Modern Warfare is an analysis of the potential for Adam Smith's proverbial Invisible Hand of the Market to effectively submit enemy combatants while severely reducing the amount of risk and tragedy associated with war. By referring to a...

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Main Author: Taillard, Michael
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Palgrave Macmillan 2012
Subjects:
Economic sanctions
Embargo
War > economic aspects
Economic policy
Economics > Political aspects
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • A critique on current methods
  • pt. I Supply Manipulation
  • 1. Creating shortages of supplies
  • 2. Creating shortage of capital assets
  • 3. Creating shortage of human assets
  • 4. Physical confrontation
  • 5. Systempunkt targets
  • 6. Limitations and failures of supply manipulation
  • 7. Suggestions for future research
  • pt. II Trade Manipulation
  • 8. Preliminary concept: terms of trade
  • 9. Preclusive purchasing
  • 10. Resource appropriation
  • 11. Supply exploitations
  • 12. Tactical hiring
  • 13. Tactical pricing
  • 14. Trade agreements
  • 15. Currency manipulation
  • 16. Counterfeiting
  • 17. Limitations and failures of trade manipulations
  • 18. Suggestions for future research
  • pt. III Market Manipulation
  • 19. Economic intelligence
  • 20. Labor exploitations
  • 21. Expropariating peoples
  • 22. Equity and debt engineering
  • 23. Equilibrium redirection
  • 24. Decision management modeling
  • 25. Resource-based view of warfare
  • 25. Limitations and problems of market manipulations
  • 27. Suggestions for future research

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