The Defense Program and the Economy
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Economic Goals and Intergovernmental Policy
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 348
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Economic Goals and Intergovernmental Policy
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 348
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Assistant Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)
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Published: 1972
Total Pages: 220
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: William J Weida
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-07-11
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1000304523
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: United States President of the United States
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 110
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Committee on the Economic Impact of Defense and Disarmament
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 116
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Vernon W. Ruttan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006-01-05
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780198040651
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Military and defense-related procurement has been an important source of technology development across a broad spectrum of industries that account for an important share of United States industrial production. In this book, the author focuses on six general-purpose technologies: interchangeable parts and mass production; military and commercial aircraft; nuclear energy and electric power; computers and semiconductors; the INTERNET; and the space industries. In each of these industries, technology development would have occurred more slowly, and in some case much more slowly or not at all, in the absence of military and defense-related procurement. The book addresses three questions that have significant implications for the future growth of the United States economy. One is whether changes in the structure of the United States economy and of the defense-industrial base preclude military and defense-related procurement from playing the role in the development of advanced technology in the future, comparable to the role it has played in the past. A second question is whether public support for commercially oriented research and development will become an important source of new general-purpose technologies. A third and more disturbing question is whether a major war, or the threat of major war, will be necessary to mobilize the scientific, technical, and financial resources necessary to induce the development of new general-purpose technologies. When the history of United States technology development in the next half century is written, it will focus on incremental rather than revolutionary changes in both military and commercial technology. It will also be written within the context of slower productivity growth than of the relatively high rates that prevailed in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s or during the information technology bubble that began in the early 1990s. These will impose severe constraints on the capacity of the United States to sustain a global-class military posture and a position of leadership in the global economy.
Author: Emile Benoit
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 360
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Monograph comprising a statistical analysis and economic analysis of the effects of national defence programmes on economic growth in 44 developing countries from 1950 to 1965 - includes information on the sample and methodology, examines the relationship of public expenditure on defence and the growth rate of the gross national product, and includes detailed studies of India, Mexico, Korea R, Israel, Egypt and Argentina. References and statistical tables.
Author: Charles Johnston Hitch
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Published: 2013-10-01
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780674865877
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