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

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1992
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (263 p.)
• Disciplina: 322.5; 335.4/3355; 351.06
• Soggetto topico: Military readiness - Economic aspects; Economic conversion
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: ChanSteve MintzAlex <1953->
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Defense, welfare, and growth
• ISBN: 0-429-22959-3; 1-134-90311-1; 1-280-32576-3; 0-203-20359-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454924003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II