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Author : Alex Mintz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134903320
Leading scholars examine the links between domestic politics, defense spending and the economics of the US defense industry.
Author : Saadet Deger,Somnath Sen
Publisher : Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0198291418
The purpose of this book is to analyse world military expenditure at the end of the 1980s, and to discuss its political and economic implications. After a decade of unprecedented expansion of international military spending, its level is falling, though modestly. Political developments in Europe and the success of arms control negotiations raise hopes for further reductions. In addition, technological and economic structural disarmament is adding to the pressure for reductions. However, performance has not matched up to promises, and formidable obstacles to defence spending limitations still remain. Military Expenditure surveys recent events and describes the process of change that characterizes international military expenditure, and its determinants, at this time of transformation.
Author : William J Weida,Franklin L Gertcher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000232646
This timely and wide-ranging study covers both the economic and the political aspects of defense spending—first by providing a theoretical framework and then by explaining, in a political economy context, the results of decisions to allocate scarce resources to defense. In doing so, the authors provide a comprehensive picture of the interaction between defense spending and the economic and political structure of the United States, complementing their exploration of topical concerns such as SDI with analysis of long-term trends and issues of timeless importance in the defense debate. Because of the politicizing of defense planning and procurement, there have been few significant applications of optimization techniques to high-level defense issues over the past decade. As a result, there has been a rapid decline in the importance of those techniques—historically the focus of books on defense economics. Like its predecessors, this book presents optimization techniques applicable to a wide variety of defense problems, but it also illustrates what happens in actual practice and why defense decisions are often not economically efficient. The authors discuss alternatives for cases when political constraints make efficient solutions unlikely and explore changes in the defense establishment and political structures that would make economically efficient resource allocations a reality.
Author : Ron Matthews
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108424929
A contemporary and comprehensive analysis of national and supranational defence governance in an uncertain and increasingly dangerous world. This book will appeal to policymakers, analysts, graduate students and academics interested in defence economics, political economy, public economics and public policy.
Author : I. Hossein-zadeh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006-08-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781403983428
This wide-ranging, interdisciplinary analysis blends history, economics, and politics to challenge the prevailing accounts of the rise of U.S. militarism. While acknowledging the contributory role of some of the most widely-cited culprits, this study explores the bigger, but largely submerged, picture: the political economy of war and militarism.
Author : Andrew Ross
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1991-07-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSC:32106010787395
Beyond the traditional two-dimensional analyses of defense economics and defense politics lies a rapidly growing field of research: the political economy of defense. As the study of the interface between economics, politics, and defense proliferates, this collective volume sets out to identify the nature of political economy of defense inquiry, surpassing a narrower focus on the economic consequences of military spending. The starting point for this collaborative effort was a series of panel discussions, organized by Andrew L. Ross, in which most of the contributors to this volume participated. The majority of chapters were written expressly for this book and have not been previously published. These analytical and empirical investigations are intended to illustrate the broad, encompassing scope of political economy of defense research and contribute to the development of a research agenda. Andrew L. Ross has brought together a timely and significant array of inquiry into the impact of defense spending on world politics and global economics. This book will be of great interest to political scientists, defense specialists, and economists studying the military-industrial complex.
Author : Rebecca U. Thorpe
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226124100
How is it that the United States—a country founded on a distrust of standing armies and strong centralized power—came to have the most powerful military in history? Long after World War II and the end of the Cold War, in times of rising national debt and reduced need for high levels of military readiness, why does Congress still continue to support massive defense budgets? In The American Warfare State, Rebecca U. Thorpe argues that there are profound relationships among the size and persistence of the American military complex, the growth in presidential power to launch military actions, and the decline of congressional willingness to check this power. The public costs of military mobilization and war, including the need for conscription and higher tax rates, served as political constraints on warfare for most of American history. But the vast defense industry that emerged from World War II also created new political interests that the framers of the Constitution did not anticipate. Many rural and semirural areas became economically reliant on defense-sector jobs and capital, which gave the legislators representing them powerful incentives to press for ongoing defense spending regardless of national security circumstances or goals. At the same time, the costs of war are now borne overwhelmingly by a minority of soldiers who volunteer to fight, future generations of taxpayers, and foreign populations in whose lands wars often take place. Drawing on an impressive cache of data, Thorpe reveals how this new incentive structure has profoundly reshaped the balance of wartime powers between Congress and the president, resulting in a defense industry perennially poised for war and an executive branch that enjoys unprecedented discretion to take military action.
Author : Adem Yavuz Elveren
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429774485
The Economics of Military Spending offers a comprehensive analysis of the effect of military expenditures on the economy. It is the first book to provide both a theoretical and an empirical investigation of how military spending affects the profit rate, a key indicator of the health of a capitalist economy. The book presents a general discussion on the economic models of the nexus of military spending and economic growth, as well as military Keynesianism and the military-industrial complex. Including an account of the Marxist crisis theories, it focuses on military spending as a counteracting factor to the tendency of rate of profit to fall. Using a range of econometric methods and adopting a Marxist perspective, this book provides comprehensive evidence on the effects of military spending on the rate of profit for more than thirty countries. The findings of the book shed light on the complex linkages between military spending and the profit rate by considering the role of countries in the arms trade. Offering a Marxist perspective and an emphasis on quantitative analysis, The Economics of Military Spending will be of great interest to students and scholars of defence and peace economics, as well as Marxist economics.
Author : Uk Heo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UVA:X004339850
With the end of the Cold War, one question that interests both scholars and policy makers alike is how defence cutbacks will affect economic performance. This text provides a review of the existing literature and addresses the issue of the peace dividend in an empirical analysis of 80 countries
Author : Zoltan Barany
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108963268
The six monarchies on the Arabian Peninsula have devoted enormous sums to defense in past decades. Nevertheless, the gap between their expensive armaments and their capacity to deter aggression and/or project military strength has narrowed but little in that time. This Element takes a political economy approach and argues that structural factors inherent in the Gulf states' political systems prohibit civilian oversight of the defense sector and are responsible for this outcome. Lax restraints on military outlays, in turn, enable widespread corruption, lead to large-scale waste, and account for the purchasing of unneeded, unsuitable, and incompatible weapons systems. The Element explores the challenges caused by plummeting oil prices and the resulting budget cuts and considers the development of domestic defense industries in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, intended as a part of their economic diversification program. The setbacks of the Saudi-led coalition's on-going war in Yemen starkly illustrate the narrative.
Author : Robert Higgs
Publisher : Holmes & Meier Publishers
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035133987
A selection of revised papers originally presented at the Second Conference on Political Economy, held Oct. 22-23, 1987, at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author : James E. Payne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429695674
This book examines the impact defense spending has on economic growth. While defense spending was not deliberately invented as a fiscal policy instrument, its importance in the composition of overall government spending and thus in determining employment is now easily recognized. In light of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the consequent reduction in the threat to the security of the United States, maintaining defense spending at the old level seems indefensible. The media has concentrated on the so-called peace dividend. However, as soon as the federal government is faced with defense cuts, it realizes the macroeconomic ramifications of such a step. Based on studies included in this volume, we examine the effects of defense spending on economic growth and investigate how the changed world political climate is likely to alter the importance and pattern of defense spending both for developed and developing countries.
Author : James E. Payne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429715686
This book examines the impact defense spending has on economic growth. While defense spending was not deliberately invented as a fiscal policy instrument, its importance in the composition of overall government spending and thus in determining employment is now easily recognized. In light of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the consequent reduction in the threat to the security of the United States, maintaining defense spending at the old level seems indefensible. The media has concentrated on the so-called peace dividend. However, as soon as the federal government is faced with defense cuts, it realizes the macroeconomic ramifications of such a step. Based on studies included in this volume, we examine the effects of defense spending on economic growth and investigate how the changed world political climate is likely to alter the importance and pattern of defense spending both for developed and developing countries.
Author : Thomas Oatley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107090644
This book demonstrates that episodes of major financial instability develop when the United States engages in large deficit-financed military buildup.
Author : Seymour Melman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : YONSEI:70109686