Rothbard M. War Collectivism: Power, Business, and the Intellectual Class in World War I

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012 — 134 p. — ISBN10: 1479234796; ISBN13: 978-1479234790.More than any other single period, World War I was the critical watershed for the American business system. It was a "war collectivism," a totally planned economy run largely by big-business interest through the instrumentality of the central government, which served as the model, the precedent, and the inspiration for state corporate capitalism for the remainder of the century.