Name: Defense, Welfare and Growth:Perspectives and Evidence
ISBN: 9780429229596

Book

ABSTRACT

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

chapter 1|20 pages

Defense, welfare, and growth: introduction

chapter 2|15 pages

Defense spending and economic performance: a disaggregated analysis

chapter 3|25 pages

Political-economic tradeoffs and British relative decline

chapter 4|20 pages

Guns, butter, and growth: the case of Norway

chapter 5|18 pages

Defense, Welfare and Growth

ABSTRACT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|20 pages

Defense, welfare, and growth: introduction

chapter 2|15 pages

Defense spending and economic performance: a disaggregated analysis

chapter 3|25 pages

Political-economic tradeoffs and British relative decline

chapter 4|20 pages

Guns, butter, and growth: the case of Norway

chapter 5|18 pages

Eating your cake and having it too: the Japanese case

chapter 6|20 pages

Models of military expenditure

chapter 7|18 pages

Economic growth, investment, and military spending in India, 1950–88

chapter 8|26 pages

Muddling through security, growth, and welfare: the political economy of defense spending in South Korea Chung-in Moon and In-Taek Hyun

chapter 9|16 pages

Military burden, economic growth, and income inequality: the Taiwan exception

chapter 10|19 pages

The dual economy and Arab-Israeli use of force: a transnational system?

chapter 11|13 pages

The impact of military expenditures on human-capital development in the Arab Gulf States

chapter 12|20 pages

Military participation, economic growth, and income inequality: a cross-national study

chapter 13|11 pages

Do we yet know who pays for defense? Conclusions and synthesis