The Political Economy of The Art of War

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11222528
AutoresMatthew McCaffrey (0000-0002-2234-5240, University of Illinois at Springfield, autor de correspondencia)
Año2014
Volumen33
Número4
Páginas354-371
Fecha de publicación2014-08-08
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaComparative Strategy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0149-5933 • E-ISSN: 1521-0448
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01495933.2014.941725
OpenAlexW1978448023
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas10

Sun Tzu's The Art of War deals with the economic aspects of military operations as well as some more general economic principles. This article studies several of its economic ideas in turn: on war and the state, the effect of war on economic affairs, and the role of incentives in promoting desired behavior within military organizations. It also discusses how the text treats ideal military strategy as a matter of opportunity discovery, analogous to entrepreneurship in the work of Israel Kirzner

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