{"product_id":"keep-from-all-thoughtful-men-how-us-economists-won-world-war-ii-9781682479483","title":"Keep from All Thoughtful Men: How U.S. Economists Won World War II","description":"\u003ci\u003eKeep from All Thoughtful Men\u003c\/i\u003e overturns much accepted historical dogma on how World War II strategy was planned and implemented. It is taken for granted that the Axis powers were defeated by an avalanche of munitions that poured forth from pitiless American factories. The amazing story of how this \"miracle of production\" was organized and integrated into Allied strategy and operations long remained untold. This is the first book that tells how revolutions in both statistics and finance forever changed the nature of war. While author Jim Lacey relates the overall story of how economics dictated war planning at the highest levels, more specifically he explains how three obscure economists came to have more influence on the conduct of World War II than the Joint Chiefs. Because military historians rarely understand economics and economic historians just as rarely involve themselves with the details of war, there has never been a military history that shows how economics influenced the planning of strategy and the conduct of war. This is sadly true of even World War II, which has been called \"The Economist's War\" by Paul Samuelson.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJim Lacey, a retired U.S. Army Infantry officer with a PhD from Leeds University in Great Britain, is a defense analyst and writer based in the Washington, DC area. He is the author of several books on military history, terrorism, and current affairs, including \u003ci\u003eTakedown: The 3rd Infantry Division's Twenty-One Day Assault on Baghdad\u003c\/i\u003e and a biography of General Pershing, among others.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"US Naval Institute Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50500944232722,"sku":"9781682479483","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c1af87b5-e5d4-4aeb-a68e-b66c756a0cb7.jpg?v=1730758704","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/keep-from-all-thoughtful-men-how-us-economists-won-world-war-ii-9781682479483","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}