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• War is a Racket (New York: Round Table Press, 1935), by Smedley D. Butler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Great Illusion: A Study of the Military Power to National Advantage (London: W. Heinemann, 1912), by Norman Angell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Great Illusion: A Study of the Military Power to National Advantage (fourth revised and enlarged edition; New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1913), by Norman Angell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Great Illusion: A Study of the Relation of Military Power in Nations to Their Economic and Social Advantage (third revised and enlarged edition; New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1911), by Norman Angell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Society of To-Morrow: A Forecast of Its Political and Economic Organisation, by G. de Molinari, trans. by Philip Henry Lee-Warner (HTML at econlib.org)
• Unseen Empire: A Study of the Plight of Nations That Do Not Pay Their Debts (Boston: American Unitarian Association, 1912), by David Starr Jordan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• War is a Racket (based on the 1935 edition), by Smedley D. Butler (HTML, PDF, and text at ratical.org)
• Billions for Defense (Headline Books #9; New York: Foreign Policy Association, c1937), by William T. Stone and Ryllis Alexander Goslin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Economics of War and Conquest: An Examination of Mr. Norman Angell's Economic Doctrines (London: P. S. King and Son, 1915), by John Harry Jones (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Billions for Defense (Headline Books #9; New York: Foreign Policy Association, c1937), by William T. Stone and Ryllis Alexander Goslin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Billions for Defense (Headline Books #9; New York: Foreign Policy Association, c1937), by William T. Stone and Ryllis Alexander Goslin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Genocide by Denial: How Profiteering from HIV/AIDS Killed Millions (Kampala: Fountain Publishers, 2008), by Peter Mugyenyi (PDF with commentary at Fountain Publishers)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Economics of War (revised edition; New York: Prentice-Hall, 1943), by Horst Mendershausen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Battles Without Bullets: The Story of Economic Warfare (Headline Books #18; New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1939), by Thomas P. Brockway, illust. by Bunji Tagawa (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Is Commerce War? (New York: American Association for International Conciliation, 1916), by Henry Raymond Mussey (page images here at Penn)

• Angola's War Economy: The Role of Oil and Diamonds (2000), ed. by Jakkie Cilliers and Christian Dietrich (PDF with commentary at issafrica.org)

• War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), ed. by Steven Heydemann (HTML at UC Press)

• Speaking of Liberty (2003), by Llewellyn H. Rockwell (PDF and Epub with commentary at mises.org)

• Mobilization and the National Defense (Washington: National Defense University Press, 1985), ed. by Hardy L. Merritt and Luther F. Carter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Redesigning Defense: Planning the Transition to the Future U.S. Defense Industrial Base (OTA-ISC-500; 1991), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Distribution of Labor In War (1918), by Edward Gray (page images here at Penn)

• The Big "L": American Logistics in World War II (1997), ed. by Alan L. Gropman (HTML at Ibiblio)

• OPA is Our Battle Line: Employee Handbook (various region editions, October 1943), by United States Office of Price Administration (page images at HathiTrust)

• Why Ration Health Care? An International Study of the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Public Sector Health Care in the USA (c2000), by Heinz Redwood (PDF at Civitas)

• Protecting Buildings from Bomb Damage: Transfer of Blast-Effects Mitigation Technologies from Military to Civilian Applications (1995), by National Research Council Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Delay, Denial and Dilution: The Impact of NHS Rationing on Heart Disease and Cancer (2000), by David G. Green and Laura Casper (PDF at Civitas)
• Why Ration Health Care? An International Study of the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Public Sector Health Care in the USA (c2000), by Heinz Redwood (PDF at Civitas)

• Closing the Gap in a Generation: Health Equity Through Action on the Social Determinants of Health (final commission report; Geneva: World Health Organization, 2008), by WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health (PDF at who.int)

• The Epidemiological Transition: Policy and Planning Implications for Developing Countries (1993), ed. by James N. Gribble and Samuel H. Preston (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Why Ration Health Care? An International Study of the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Public Sector Health Care in the USA (c2000), by Heinz Redwood (PDF at Civitas)

• Ethical Considerations in the Business Aspects of Health Care (c1995), by Woodstock Theological Center Seminar in Business Ethics (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• Facts About Fallout (1955), by United States Federal Civil Defense Administration (page images with commentary at archives.gov; pages may display in reverse order in some browsers)

• In Time of Emergency: A Citizen's Handbook on Emergency Management (1980), by United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (text with commentary at textfiles.com)
• In Time of Emergency: A Citizen's Handbook on Nuclear Attack, Natural Disasters (1968), by United States Office of Civil Defense (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Ten for Survival: Survive Nuclear Attack (May 1959, reprinted January 1961), by United States Office of Civil Defense (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Principles of Economics (derived from Creative Commons licensed edition published by Flat World Knowledge, ca. 2011), by Libby Rittenberg and Timothy D. Tregarthen (PDF at saylor.org)
• Principles of Macroeconomics (derived from Creative Commons licensed edition published by Flat World Knowledge, ca. 2009), by Libby Rittenberg and Timothy D. Tregarthen (PDF at saylor.org)
• Principles of Microeconomics (derived from Creative Commons licensed edition published by Flat World Knowledge, ca. 2009), by Libby Rittenberg and Timothy D. Tregarthen (PDF at saylor.org)
• The A B C of Finance: or, The Money and Labor Questions Familiarly Explained to Common People, In Short and Easy Lessons, by Simon Newcomb
  • HTML at econlib.org
  • page images at MOA
• A Discourse on Public Economy and Commerce, by Cesare Beccaria (text at McMaster)
• Public Finance (third edition, 1917), by C. F. Bastable (HTML at econlib.org)
• Thoughts on the Funding System, and Its Effects, by Piercy Ravenstone (HTML at McMaster)
• Public Finance in Democratic Process: Fiscal Institutions and Individual Choice, by James M. Buchanan (frame-dependent HTML at econlib.org)

• Red River Campaign: Politics and Cotton in the Civil War (originally published 1958; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Ludwell H. Johnson (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Confederate Finance (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1954), by Richard Cecil Todd (PDF at Georgia)
• Facts and Suggestions Relative to Finance & Currency, Addressed to the President of the Confederate States, by Duff Green (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Retrospectives on Public Finance (from the Fiscal Reform in the Developing World series; Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1991), ed. by Lorraine Eden, contrib. by Malcolm Gillis, Minoru Nakazato, Charles E. McClure, John D. Bossons, Richard B. Goode, William C. Vickrey, Wayne R. Thirsk, John F. Graham, Stanley L. Winer, W. Irwin Gillespie, Melville L. McMillan, Cliff Walsh, John G. Head, Enid Slack, E. G. West, Richard M. Bird, Peggy B. Musgrave, D. A. L. Auld, John Burbidge, Jack M. Mintz, John Sargent, and Richard A. Musgrave (page images at HathiTrust)

• Funds in the Khilafah State (Al-Amwal fi Dowlat Al-Khilafah) (second edition, 1988), by 'Abd al-Qadīm Zallūm (PDF with commentary at hizb-ut-tahrir.org)

• Italian Public Finance (Trade information bulletin #313, supplement to Commerce Reports; Washington: GPO, 1925), by H. C. MacLean
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Executive Documents, Convention, Session 1865: Constitution of North Carolina, With Amendments, and Ordinances and Resolutions Passed by the Convention, Session 1865 (Raleigh: Cannon and Holden, 1865), by North Carolina Constitutional Convention (multiple formats at Google)

• L'Emprunt Dom Miguel (1832) Devant le Droit des Gens et l'Histoire (second edition, in French; Paris: A. Chai et cie., 1880)
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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