Essays on the Cold War

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-x

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2. Introduction

   • Murray Wolfson

   Pages 1-14

3. A Requiem for Marxism

   • Murray Wolfson

   Pages 15-31

4. Perestroika and the Quest for Peace

   • Murray Wolfson

   Pages 32-50

5. Johnson’s Problem

   • Murray Wolfson

   Pages 51-59

6. A Three-Party Model of World Conflict

   • Murray Wolfson

   Pages 60-80

7. Notes on Economic Warfare

   • Murray Wolfson

   Pages 81-98

8. Do Zones of Deterrence Exist?

   • Murray Wolfson

   Pages 99-104

9. Economic Warfare Between the Superpowers

   • John P. Farrell

   Pages 105-129

10. Toward a Negative Arms Race

    • John P. Farrell

    Pages 130-141

11. A General Model of Economic and Military War

    • John P. Farrell

    Pages 142-162

12. Economic Causation in the Breakdown of Military Equilibrium

    • Homa Shabahang

    Pages 163-184

13. Macroeconomic Warfare

    • Murray Wolfson

    Pages 185-206

14. Epilogue 1991

    • Murray Wolfson

    Pages 207-209

15. Back Matter

    Pages 210-244

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This book is concerned with the ideological origins of the cold war and how it was fought by economic means. The book revolves around four major themes. Firstly, it is argued that the origin of the cold war is not to be found in rational, economic motivation, but in ideology through which both the East and West perceived 'reality'. Secondly, these ideological preconceptions generated complex feed-back processes of hostility that lasted forty years. Thirdly, although this hostility was expressed in political, ideological and military terms, the decisive battle was fought in economic terms as each nation devoted resources to unproductive military purposes. Finally, the end of the cold war came with the collapse of the dysfunctional Soviet economy. Although, the Soviets lost the cold war, in the light of the ascendancy of its competitors, the United States did not win it.

• economy
• nation
• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
• USA

• California State University, Fullerton, USA

  Murray Wolfson

• University of California, Irvine, USA

  Murray Wolfson

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