Még mindig 1914: Avner Offer a hadviselők erőforrásairól

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Endowments for war in 1914  

Avner Offer
Chichele Professor Emeritus of Economic History and Emeritus Fellow at All Souls College, University of Oxford

19 September 2014 – voxeu.org

Victory in World War I relied on three types of energy: renewable energy for food and fodder, fossil energy, and high explosive. This column argues that the Allies had a clear advantage in manpower, coal, and agriculture, but not enough for a quick decision. Mobilisation in continental economies curtailed food production, occasionally to a critical level. Technical competition was a matter of capacity for innovation, not of particular breakthroughs. Coercive military service and rationing of scarce energy and food had egalitarian consequences that continued after the war.


 

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