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Mark Harrison

@mark4harrison.bsky.social

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Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick. History of Russia, communism, two world wars, and the cold war. Economics of fighting, stealing, cheating, lying, and spying. Home page at warwick.ac.uk/markharrison

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Mark Harrison @mark4harrison.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Steve Broadberry and I had a great time introducing our new book Economic Warfare and Sanctions since 1688 to friends and colleagues in London last night /1

Steve Broadberry (left) and Mark Harrison (right), standing by an image of our book, Economic Warfare and Sanctions since 1688

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Mark Harrison @mark4harrison.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Excited that *Economic Warfare and Sanctions since 1688*, edited by Steve Broadberry and me, and forthcoming in November, is already up on the @universitypress.cambridge.org website www.cambridge.org/gb/universit... with a terrific cover page

Text: Economic Warfare and Sanctions since 1688, edited by Stephen Broadberry and Mark Harrison. Illustration photo shows ship being struck by a torpedo, seen through a submarine periscope.

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Mark Harrison @mark4harrison.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

My paper on Economic Warfare: Lessons of the two World Wars appears as Chapter 10 @warwickecon.bsky.social @cagewarwick.bsky.social @cepr.org @britishacademy.bsky.social /end

Four lessons are discussed: (1) Modern economies are resilient under attack. (2) The action of economic warfare is slow. (3) Economic warfare is powerful—eventually. (4) The threat of economic warfare is also powerful—although not always as hoped. To conclude, economic warfare belongs to wars of attrition. In such wars, economic and military measures are complements, not substitutes.

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Mark Harrison @mark4harrison.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Me in the national security team group chat

Soviet poster from 1958. "Don't gossip! Strictly conserve military and state secrecy!" Two Red Army soldiers, of whom one is chatting away, excited and gesticulating. The other has a warning finger to his lip. Behind, in the bushes, someone is listening attentively . . .

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Mark Harrison @mark4harrison.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Looks like nobody read to the end 🧐

The Economist says some regulation is good: don't deregulate indiscriminately

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Mark Harrison @mark4harrison.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

By embracing men with tainted records, Putin ensures their personal loyalty. If he is ever made to face a war crimes tribunal, so must they. "The stars of Putin’s ‘elite’ management school: soldiers accused of war crimes" - on.ft.com/4g2YmZm via @FT

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