ABSTRACT
The objective of this collection of research papers is to break new ground along four fronts. The first front, part I of this book, concerns how one approaches thinking about the economics of conflict, war, and peace. It is our impression that the current scope of economic theory as applied to the themes at hand has become narrow. While deepening our understanding, continuing research with prevailing approaches limits the possible breadth of insights to be derived from new approaches to theory. Ralph Rotte (Germany) uses an histoiy-of-economicthought approach to examine modem peace economics; Bjorn Moller (Denmark) and Thomas Scheetz (Argentina) consider some economic aspects of nonoffensive defense; Charles Anderton and Roxane Anderton (USA) delve deeper into neoclassical economic theory; and economic geographers Barney Warf and John Grimes (USA) examine the limitations of an economics more concerned with time than with space and distribution.
