Chapter Introduction / YUKIHIRO IKEDA -- part Part I Before the two world wars -- chapter 1 The food weapon: milestones in the history of a concept (17th-19th centuries) / ALAIN CLEMENT -- chapter 2 Why the wars? And how to pay for them? A comparison between Hume and Smith / DANIEL DIATKINE -- chapter 3 Hume and Smith on morality and war / SHINJI NOHARA -- chapter 4 Industrialism and war in the French social sciences in the early 19th century / PHILIPPE STEINER -- chapter 5 Studying economics as war effort: the first economic treatise in the Ottoman Empire and its militaristic motivations DENIZ T. KILINCOGLU -- chapter 6 Economic non-intervention and military non-intervention in John Stuart Mill's thought / PHILIPPE GILLIG -- part Part II Japan and World War II -- chapter 7 New liberalism in interwar Japan: a study of the magazine The New Liberalism / SHIMPEI YAMAMOTO -- chapter 8 Economic research in national higher commercial schools in wartime Japan / TADASHI OHTSUKI -- chapter 9 Takata Yasuma's theory on power and his political stance on race / TSUTOMU HASHIMOTO -- part Part III Lessons from the 20th century world wars -- chapter 10 How to avoid war: fediferalism in L. Robbins and W.H. Beveridge / W.H. Beveridge ATSUSHI KOMINE -- chapter 11 The wartime economy and the theory of price controls / PAOLO PAESANI -- chapter 12 From barter to monetary economy: ordoliberal views on the post-WWII German economic ordifer / RAPHAEL FEVRE -- chapter 13 The transformation of Kenneth Arrow's attitude toward war / NAO SAITO