Abstract
The 2023 HOPE conference aimed to understand the interrelationships between the Second World War and economics. Examining this back-and-forth means examining the transformative effect of the war on the content and status of economics, but also symmetrically examining the role played by economics and economists in the conduct of the Second World War.
economists in World War II, economic planning, economics of war, development of quantitative techniques
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