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Harald Espeli - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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cooperation on a purely matter of fact basis the norwegian central bank and its relationship to the german supervisory authority during the occupation
Scandinavian Economic History Review, 2014Co-Authors: Harald EspeliAbstract:Recent publications have addressed the issue of the financial contribution of occupied countries to the German War Economy from 1939 until 1945. Occupied countries contributed between 25 and 30% of the total German War costs. According to recent calculations, the Norwegian contribution has been between 6 and 7% of the occupied countries' total contribution; per capita the Norwegian War tribute was twice the average of the occupied West-European countries. The main aim of the paper is to explain how the relatively large Norwegian contribution came about by focusing on the institutional arrangements of financial transfers. The role of the central bank, Norges Bank, and its relationship with its German supervisory authority during the occupation is particularly important. The accommodating behaviour of Norges Bank (NB) and the shrewd institutional set-up and actual operandi of the monetary and financial occupation regime in Norway, based on indirect governance, served German interests better than the more fr...
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cooperation on a purely matter of fact basis the norwegian central bank and its relationship to the german supervisory authority during the occupation 1940 1945
Scandinavian Economic History Review, 2014Co-Authors: Harald EspeliAbstract:Recent publications have addressed the issue of the financial contribution of occupied countries to the German War Economy from 1939 until 1945. Occupied countries contributed between 25 and 30% of the total German War costs. According to recent calculations, the Norwegian contribution has been between 6 and 7% of the occupied countries' total contribution; per capita the Norwegian War tribute was twice the average of the occupied West-European countries. The main aim of the paper is to explain how the relatively large Norwegian contribution came about by focusing on the institutional arrangements of financial transfers. The role of the central bank, Norges Bank, and its relationship with its German supervisory authority during the occupation is particularly important. The accommodating behaviour of Norges Bank (NB) and the shrewd institutional set-up and actual operandi of the monetary and financial occupation regime in Norway, based on indirect governance, served German interests better than the more frequent use of direct rule and open inference in the equivalent domestic institutions in Belgium, France and The Netherlands.
Adam Weaver - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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tourism and the military pleasure and the War Economy
Annals of Tourism Research, 2011Co-Authors: Adam WeaverAbstract:Abstract This paper argues that market forces have driven the means by which the military-industrial complex in the United States has increasingly shaped the tourism industry in recent decades. A business-oriented military entity that creates enormous destructive potential has had an influence upon the provision and character of tourism. Examining certain aspects of the tourism industry reveals a sometimes paradoxical, and yet ultimately profitable, blending of pleasure-oriented consumption and the by-products of a permanent War Economy. The tourism industry and military-industrial complex may seem to possess qualities that are contradictory in nature but they are also complementary in various ways. Commerce supports and encourages profitable antagonisms; it is guiding the interplay between tourism and the military sphere
Christopher J. Coyne - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Revolving Door and the Entrenchment of the Permanent War Economy
Peace Economics Peace Science and Public Policy, 2015Co-Authors: Thomas K. Duncan, Christopher J. CoyneAbstract:This paper analyzes the “revolving door” phenomena in the military sector in the US. The revolving door refers to the back-and-forth movement of personnel between the government and private sector. We examine the structure of the revolving door and explain how its very nature leads to the perpetuation of the permanent War Economy. This analysis yields several important implications. First, the dynamics of the revolving door shape the military-industrial complex in a way that serves the narrow interests of select elites rather than the broad interests of citizens. Second, because the perverse incentives are a product of the institutional structure of the US military sector, the negative consequences are also structural and cannot be solved by increased oversight.
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The Revolving Door and the Entrenchment of the Permanent War Economy
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015Co-Authors: Thomas K. Duncan, Christopher J. CoyneAbstract:This paper analyzes the “revolving door” phenomena in the military sector in the United States. The revolving door refers to the back-and-forth movement of personnel between the government and private sector. We examine the structure of the revolving door and explain how its very nature leads to the perpetuation of the permanent War Economy. This analysis yields several important implications. First, the dynamics of the revolving door shape the military-industrial complex in a way that serves the narrow interests of select elites rather than the broad interests of citizens. Second, because the perverse incentives are a product of the institutional structure of the U.S. military sector, the negative consequences are also structural and cannot be solved by increased oversight.
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the overlooked costs of the permanent War Economy a market process approach
The Review of Austrian Economics, 2013Co-Authors: Thomas K. Duncan, Christopher J. CoyneAbstract:How does the permanent War Economy interact, and subsume, the private, non-military Economy? Can the two remain at a distance while sharing resource pools? This paper argues that they cannot. Once the U.S. embarked upon the path of permanent War, starting with World War II, the result was a permanent War Economy. The permanent War Economy continuously draws resources into the military sector at the expense of the private Economy, even in times of peace. We explore the overlooked costs of this process. The permanent War Economy does not just transfer resources from the private Economy, but also distorts and undermines the market process which is ultimately responsible for improvements in standards of living.
Benedikt Korf - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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rethinking the greed grievance nexus property rights and the political Economy of War in sri lanka
Journal of Peace Research, 2005Co-Authors: Benedikt KorfAbstract:The literature on civil Wars tends to understand greed and grievances in antagonistic terms of either-or'. This article suggests that in the political Economy of conflict, greed and grievances may be causally linked and reinforce each other: War (or shadow) economies of combatants and the survival economies of civilians are intertwined. Gains made by conflict entrepreneurs and War profiteers feed grievances about identity, economic inequality, and lack of political power. Once civil War is onset (for whatever reason), the political Economy of War produces a self-sustaining logic of clientelism along the lines of perceived friends' and foes'. These dividing lines get reinforced in everyday political networks of survival. This everyday clientelism, in turn, nourishes grievance discourses along the same lines. These grievances contribute to heighten the motivation for people to fight for justice'. In this way, greed produces grievances, which in turn stabilize the War Economy and offer economic opportunities for greedy entrepreneurs of violence. Case studies from Sri Lanka on local resource conflicts in the context of civil War support this proposition. They indicate that because of the civil War and the breakdown of state and civic institutions, ethnicity becomes a mechanism for civilian actors to access resources available largely through arbitrary power. Civilians thus become part of the game'. In effect, this leads to ethnicized entitlements', where the ethnic groups are asymmetrically endowed with bargaining power to access resources, depending upon their affiliation with militant actors and their respective initial power resources. These ethnicized entitlements satisfy greed for some War winners and feed grievances among those at the losing end.
Thomas K. Duncan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Revolving Door and the Entrenchment of the Permanent War Economy
Peace Economics Peace Science and Public Policy, 2015Co-Authors: Thomas K. Duncan, Christopher J. CoyneAbstract:This paper analyzes the “revolving door” phenomena in the military sector in the US. The revolving door refers to the back-and-forth movement of personnel between the government and private sector. We examine the structure of the revolving door and explain how its very nature leads to the perpetuation of the permanent War Economy. This analysis yields several important implications. First, the dynamics of the revolving door shape the military-industrial complex in a way that serves the narrow interests of select elites rather than the broad interests of citizens. Second, because the perverse incentives are a product of the institutional structure of the US military sector, the negative consequences are also structural and cannot be solved by increased oversight.
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The Revolving Door and the Entrenchment of the Permanent War Economy
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015Co-Authors: Thomas K. Duncan, Christopher J. CoyneAbstract:This paper analyzes the “revolving door” phenomena in the military sector in the United States. The revolving door refers to the back-and-forth movement of personnel between the government and private sector. We examine the structure of the revolving door and explain how its very nature leads to the perpetuation of the permanent War Economy. This analysis yields several important implications. First, the dynamics of the revolving door shape the military-industrial complex in a way that serves the narrow interests of select elites rather than the broad interests of citizens. Second, because the perverse incentives are a product of the institutional structure of the U.S. military sector, the negative consequences are also structural and cannot be solved by increased oversight.
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the overlooked costs of the permanent War Economy a market process approach
The Review of Austrian Economics, 2013Co-Authors: Thomas K. Duncan, Christopher J. CoyneAbstract:How does the permanent War Economy interact, and subsume, the private, non-military Economy? Can the two remain at a distance while sharing resource pools? This paper argues that they cannot. Once the U.S. embarked upon the path of permanent War, starting with World War II, the result was a permanent War Economy. The permanent War Economy continuously draws resources into the military sector at the expense of the private Economy, even in times of peace. We explore the overlooked costs of this process. The permanent War Economy does not just transfer resources from the private Economy, but also distorts and undermines the market process which is ultimately responsible for improvements in standards of living.