What role did economics play in leading the United States into the Civil War in the 1860s, and how did the war affect the economies of the North and the South? Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation uses contemporary economic analyses such as supply and demand, modern market theory, and the economics of politics to interpret events of the Civil War.

Introduction: How Economics Illuminates the Civil War -- Economic Interests and the Onset of the Civil War: The Tariff -- The Union Blockade and Southern Strategy -- Inflation, North and South -- Consequences of the War.