War and economy. Rediscovering the eighteenth-century military entrepreneur
本文指出传统观点低估了战争对前工业时代经济发展的积极作用，强调军事企业家在十八世纪国家形成与资本投资中的关键角色，适合关注经济史与军事史关系的学者阅读。
The detrimental effects traditionally assigned to warfare in the development of pre-industrial economies have obscured the prominent role that military entrepreneurs played in economic development in this period. Historiography minimises the extent to which war and the concomitant strengthening of the central state provided a whole new range of opportunities for capital investment, a tendency that has been strengthened by the paradigm of Redlich’s ‘decline of the soldier-entrepreneur’ and the technological determinism of the debate on the Military Revolution among others. The aim of this introduction is to look into the background of this relative lack of interest and to reaffirm the mutual dependence of eighteenth-century state-formation and the business of war.