Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation - The Economics of the Civil War

Informationen zum Autor Mark Thornton is senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute and book review editor of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics. Robert B. Ekelund, Jr., is the Edward K. and Catherine L. Lowder Eminent Scholar at Auburn University and Vernon F. Taylor Visiting Distinguished Professor at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. Klappentext What role did economics play in leading the United States into the Civil War in the 1860s, and how did the war affect the economies of the North and the South? Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation uses contemporary economic analyses such as supply and demand, modern market theory, and the economics of politics to interpret events of the Civil War. Zusammenfassung What role did economics play in leading the United States into the Civil War in the 1860s! and how did the war affect the economies of the North and the South? Tariffs! Blockades! and Inflation uses contemporary economic analyses such as supply and demand! modern market theory! and the economics of politics to interpret events of the Civil War.

Product details

• Authors: Robert B Ekelund, Robert B. Ekelund, Mark Thornton, Mark/ Ekelund Thornton
• Assisted by: Steven E. Woodworth (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2004
• EAN: 9780842029605
• ISBN: 978-0-8420-2960-5
• No. of pages: 116
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 216 mm x 13 mm
• Series: The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era; American Crisis (Hardcover); American Crisis Series: Books; The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era; American Crisis (Hardcover)
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries