Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation: The Economics of the Civil War

by Robert B. Ekelund Jr. and Mark Thornton

Book Overview

What role did economics play in leading the United States into the Civil War in the 1860s, and how did the war affect the economies of the North and the South? Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation uses contemporary economic analyses such as supply and demand, modern market theory, and the economics of politics to interpret events of the Civil War.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0842029613
• ISBN13: 9780842029612
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.4"