Table of Contents
Foreword
Part I: Introduction and overview
Introduction
Stephen Broadberry and Mark Harrison
1 Four myths about the Great War
Mark Harrison
Part II: Preparations for war
2 Too many smoking guns: How a conflict in the Balkans became a world war
Roger L. Ransom
3 Inequality, imperialism, and the outbreak of World War I
Branko Milanovic
4 The prewar arms race and the causes of the Great War
Jari Eloranta
5 Lessons from the financial preparations in the lead-up to World War I
Harold James
6 Endowments for war in 1914
Avner Offer
7 Short poppies: The heights of servicemen in World War I
Timothy J. Hatton
Part III: Conduct of the war
8 World War I: Why the Allies won
Stephen Broadberry
9 Firms and the German war economy: Warmongers for the sake of profit?
Tobias A. Jopp
10 Demise and disintegration: The economic consequences of the Great War in Central Europe
Tamas Vonyo
11 Russia in the Great War: Mobilisation, grain, and revolution
Andrei Markevich
12 Neutral economies in World War I
Herman de Jong and Stefan Nikolić
Part IV: Consequences of the war
13 Walking wounded: The British economy in the aftermath of World War I
Nicholas Crafts
14 The halo of victory: What Americans learned from World War I
Hugh Rockoff
15 August 1914 and the end of unrestricted mass migration
Drew Keeling
16 Inequality: From the Great War to the Great Compression
Walter Scheidel
17 The demographic impact of the Great War: Killings, diseases, and displacements
Robert Millward
18 Europe's first refugee crisis: World War I
Peter Gatrell
19 International organisation and World War I
Patricia Clavin
20 The first great trade collapse: The effects of World War I on international trade in the short and long run
David Jacks