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Mark Harrison
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Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick. History of Russia, communism, two world wars, and the cold war. Economics of fighting, stealing, cheating, lying, and spying. Home page at http://warwick.ac.uk/markharrison/
These studies show how economic warfare and sanctions differed, how they were related, what they were good and bad for, and why -- all summed up in the editors' introduction. Ungated preprint here warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econ... 4/end
Do Economic Warfare and Sanctions Work? Three Centuries of Evidence
747/2025 Stephen Broadberry, Mark Harrison, We draw lessons from three centuries of economic warfare and sanctions. Establishing cause and effect is difficult because much else was typically changing ...
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December 18, 2025 at 1:34 PM
. . . Interwar sanctions on Italy and Japan (followed in Japan's case by economic warfare), postwar trade and technology sanctions on the Soviet bloc, and sanctions on the apartheid regimes of South Africa and Rhodesia 3/4
December 18, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Steve and I are co-editors and there are 18 authors (including ourselves). We cover the Anglo-French wars of the long eighteenth century, the American Civil War, Britain versus Germany in two World Wars . . . 2/4
December 18, 2025 at 1:34 PM