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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 3
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    What are the best book-length reads on WW1 and WW2 war economy management?

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      2. James Giammona‏ @jamesgiammona Apr 3
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        Freedom's Forge by A. Herman is about the organization of war production by American business in WW2 led by two great figures of the time: Henry Kaiser (founded Kaiser Permanente for his miners, kind of the Elon Musk of his day) and Bill Knudsen (assembly line master at GM)

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 3
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        Thanks!

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      2. Ashwin Varma‏ @varma_ashwin97 Apr 3
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        Yes please. @danwwang perhaps?

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      3. Dan Wang‏ @danwwang Apr 3
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        Tooze’s Wages of Destruction, on the Nazi war economy, is splendid.

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        Economists at War: How a Handful of Economists Helped Win and Lose the World Wars @Altimorhttps://voxeu.org/article/economists-war …

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      1. Ben Reinhardt‏ @Ben_Reinhardt Apr 3
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        Not book length but there are good chapters in "Creative Capital: Georges Doriot and the Birth of Venture Capital" on the controlled materials plan

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      2. Melo Magolego‏ @melomagolego Apr 3
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        "The War Bond Story" by Laurence M Olney, is a dry around 100pg read about how US government issued bonds during WWII (in addition to other nation building objectives) to try drain excess money from people's pockets & defer spending, so as to prevent a CPI inflation spike.

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        That’s a nice 1. @vgr I would also suggest Japan's War Economy by Erich Pauer it has detailed legislation and the institutional changes required for a fully mobilized economy.

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        Catch-22. Sorry.

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        Tooze - The Deluge

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