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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chan, Steve.

Mintz, Alex, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Military readiness--Economic aspects.

Military readiness.

Economic conversion.

Military readiness--Economic aspects--Case studies.

Economic conversion--Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-134-90310-3

0-429-22959-3

1-134-90311-1

1-280-32576-3

0-203-20359-3

9780429229596

OCLC:

646718041