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Participants analyze how liberal economies—and liberal societies—can best prepare for the prospect of waging a future war. Participants discuss raw materials, efficient production, and technological obsolescence. The possible weaknesses and strengths of a liberal economic system are contrasted with those of a centrally planned economic system in the context of both the preparation for war and wartime production.
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In the sense of entrepreneurs who are knowledgeable of the economy, well-versed in technological progress , and so on—Ed.
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This likely refers to the useful service life of airplanes in the 1920s and 1930s, which could be short by contemporary standards.
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Rue ff refers here to bilateral clearing agreements, so-called clearings, that limited “fr ee” trade in the 1930s.
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An economy oriented toward military ends.
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Possony, Stefan. 1938. To-morrow’s War: Its Planning, Management and Cost. London: Hodge & Co.
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Reinhoudt, J., Audier, S. (2018). Liberalism and the War Economy. In: The Walter Lippmann Colloquium. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65885-8_5
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