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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454924003321

Titolo

Defense, welfare, and growth / / edited by Steve Chan and Alex Mintz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1992

ISBN

0-429-22959-3

1-134-90311-1

1-280-32576-3

0-203-20359-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ChanSteve

MintzAlex <1953->

Disciplina

322.5

335.4/3355

351.06

Soggetti

Military readiness - Economic aspects

Economic conversion

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Defense, welfare, and growth: introduction; Defense spending and economic performance:i a disaggregated analysis; Political-economic tradeoffs and British relative decline; Guns, butter, and growth: the case of Norway; Eating your cake and having it too:the Japanese case; Models of military expenditure; Economic growth, investment, and military spending in India, 1950  88; Muddling through security, growth, and welfare: the political economy of defense spending in South Korea

Military burden, economic growth, and income inequality: the Taiwan exception The dual economy and Arab-Israeli use of force: a transnational system?; The impact of military expenditures on human-capital development in the Arab Gulf states; Military participation, economic growth, and income inequality: a cross-national study; Do we yet know who pays for defense? Conclusions and synthesis; Index



Sommario/riassunto

Expert essays bring together material from many developed and developing countries to determine how defense spending can affect welfare provision and economic growth.