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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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
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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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"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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