Mark Harrison

University of Warwick

Professor of Economics

Department of Economics

University of Warwick

Coventry, CV4 7AL

United Kingdom

http://warwick.ac.uk/markharrison

University of Birmingham

Research fellow

Birmingham, B15 2TT

United Kingdom

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1.

Great War, Civil War, and Recovery: Russia’s National Income, 1913 to 1928

Journal of Economic History, Vol. 71, No. 3, pp. 672-703
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 19 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 26 Jan 2012
Andrei Markevich and Mark Harrison
New Economic School and University of Warwick
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Civil War, GDP, Russia, Soviet Union, World War I

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Capitalism at War

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 27 Jan 2012
Mark Harrison
University of Warwick
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Capitalism, Corporate Political Action, Keynesianism, Public Finance, State Capacity, Trade, War

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Russia’s Home Front, 1914-1922: The Economy

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 09 Feb 2012
Mark Harrison and Andrei Markevich
University of Warwick and New Economic School
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Civil War, Russia, Soviet Union, World War I

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Communism and Economic Modernization

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 03 Jul 2012
Mark Harrison
University of Warwick
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Beliefs, China, communism, convergence, growth, institutions, modernization, policy reform, Russia

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The Soviet Economy: The Late 1930s in Historical Perspective

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 08 May 2018
R. W. Davies, Mark Harrison, Oleg Khlevniuk and Stephen G Wheatcroft
University of Birmingham - Department of Economics, University of Warwick, National Research University Higher School of Economics and Deakin University
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communism, economic development, economic growth, incentives, industrialisation, military power, mismeasurement, mobilisation, policy reform, power, Soviet Union, violence, war economy

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The Economics of Coercion and Conflict: An Introduction

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 07 Sep 2013
Mark Harrison
University of Warwick
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Coercion, Conflict, Games, Errors, Increasing Returns, Rational Choice, Scale, Surplus, Violence

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The Frequency of Wars

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The Frequency of Wars

Economic History Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 26 Jan 2012
Mark Harrison and Nikolaus Wolf
University of Warwick and Humboldt University Berlin - Department of Economics
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wars, state capacity, democracy, trade

The Frequency of Wars

The Economic History Review, Vol. 65, Issue 3, pp. 1055-1076, 2012
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 03 Jul 2012
Mark Harrison and Nikolaus Wolf
University of Warwick and Humboldt University Berlin - Department of Economics
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Accounting for Secrets

University of Warwick Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy Working Paper No. 59
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 26 Jan 2012
Mark Harrison
University of Warwick
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Accounting, Dictatorship, Norms, Secrecy, Soviet Union, Transaction Costs

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Forging Success: Soviet Managers and Accounting Fraud, 1943 to 1962

Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 39, No. 1, 2011
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 26 Jan 2012
Mark Harrison
University of Warwick
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Accounting Fraud, Performance-Based Incentives, Political Markets, Soviet Economy

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Economic Warfare in Twentieth-Century History and Strategy

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Economic Warfare in Twentieth-Century History and Strategy

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 12 Jun 2020
Mark Harrison
University of Warwick
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blockade, economic sanctions, economic warfare, strategy, substitution, war of attrition, World War I, World War II

Economic Warfare in Twentieth-Century History and Strategy

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14649
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 08 May 2020
Mark Harrison
University of Warwick
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Blockade, economic sanctions, economic warfare, Strategy, substitution, War of Attrition, World War I, World War II

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Contracting for Counterintelligence: the KGB and Soviet Informers of the 1960s and 1970s

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 23 May 2019
Mark Harrison
University of Warwick
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communism, contracts, social capital, state security, surveillance, trust

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If You Do Not Change Your Behaviour: Managing Threats to State Security in Lithuania Under Soviet Rule

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 10 Nov 2015
Mark Harrison
University of Warwick
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coercion, communism, deviance, nudge, security, social norms, surveillance, Soviet Union, zero-tolerance

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Secrecy, Fear, and Transaction Costs: The Business of Soviet Forced Labour in the Early Cold War

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 26 Jan 2012
Mark Harrison
University of Warwick
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Cold War, Forced Labour, Secrecy, Transaction Costs, Soviet Union

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Quantity Versus Quality in the Soviet Market for Weapons

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 19 Jul 2010
Mark Harrison and Andrei Markevich
University of Warwick and New Economic School
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Contracts, Dictatorship, Hold-Up Problem, Soviet Economy

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Counter-Intelligence in a Command Economy

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Counter-Intelligence in a Command Economy

Number of pages: 93 Posted: 28 Sep 2013
Mark Harrison
University of Warwick
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communism, command economy, discrimination, information, loyalty, regulation, security, surveillance, Soviet Union

Counter‐Intelligence in a Command Economy

The Economic History Review, Vol. 69, Issue 1, pp. 131-158, 2016
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 19 Jan 2016
Mark Harrison and Inga Zaksauskienė
University of Warwick and Vilnius University
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Book Reviews

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 19 Sep 2004
E. A. Wrigley, D. M. Palliser, Lesley Ellis Miller, Rosemary Sweet, Colin Heywood, Peter M. Scott, Chris Evans, Gerald Crompton, Viviane Quirke, D. J. Oddy, Noel Thompson, Neil Rollings, Michael Zell, Mark Harrison, John Haldon, Steve Koerner, Joy Cushman, Karen Jones, Bernard Harris, Timothy Lynch and Luigino Bruni
University of Cambridge, University of Leeds, University of Southampton - Winchester School of Art, University of Leeds, University of Nottingham, University of Reading - Henley Business School, University of Glamorgan, University of Kent, Canterbury, Oxford Brookes University, University of Westminster, University of Wales, Swansea, University of Glasgow - Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Greenwich, University of Warwick, University of Birmingham, Independent, University of Glasgow, University of Essex, University of Southampton - Division of Sociology & Social Policy, Cato Institute and University of East Anglia (UEA)
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Quality, Experience, and Monopoly: The Soviet Market for Weapons Under Stalin

Economic History Review, Vol. 59, No. 1, pp. 113-142, February 2006
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 08 May 2006
Andrei Markevich and Mark Harrison
New Economic School and University of Warwick
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The Frequency of Wars: Reply to Gleditsch and Pickering

The Economic History Review, Vol. 67, Issue 1, pp. 231-239, 2014
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 16 Jan 2014
Nikolaus Wolf and Mark Harrison
Humboldt University Berlin - Department of Economics and University of Warwick
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Coercion, Compliance, and the Collapse of the Soviet Command Economy

Posted: 05 Feb 2003
Mark Harrison
University of Warwick

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Soviet Industrial Production, 1928 to 1955: Real Growth and Hidden Inflation

Posted: 22 Jun 2000
Mark Harrison
University of Warwick

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