When governments finance a war by printing money and using it to buy supplies and pay troops, the resulting depreciation acts as a tax, the amount of which is exactly equivalent to the depreciation. It is taxation by the back door, but it is an unequal and largely regressive tax.
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The War Finance Corporation was a government corporation in the United States created to give financial support to industries essential for World War I, and to banking institutions that aided such i...
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The term war finance , a branch of defense economics, denotes a number of measures including fiscal and monetary initiatives to fund the expenditure of a war. Such measures, broadly classified in th...
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Congress and the Federal Reserve Bank have a cozy, unspoken arrangement that makes war easier to finance. Congress has an insatiable appetite for new spending, but raising taxes is politically unpopular.
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The exception in this discussion of war finance, a debate which outlasted the actual war, was H. J. Davenport, an American adherent of the Austrian School economics of Carl Menger and Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk.
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The purpose of this volume is to collect in one convenient location the most trenchant economic analyses made of previous modes of war finance. It pays special attention to those that seemed to mark permanent changes in the institutional arrangements used by governments to finance their military adventures.
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Vad finance in such a way that the scope of the immediate war ... follows, therefore, I shall speak of war finance only in its aspect of camp-follower. ...
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