Defense economics examines both peace and defense issues, using such macroeconomic and microeconomic tools as growth theory, static optimization, dynamic optimization, comparative statics, game theory and econometrics. This book provides an up-to-date survey of the field of defense economics, synthesizing and unifying the vast literature in this area. Many aspects of defense, disarmament, conversion and peace are examined; both demand and supply issues of defense spending are analyzed.
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"This book establishes a new standard of excellence in the defense and peace economics field for breadth and depth of coverage and accessibility. An excellent balance has been struck between rigor and discussion. The book will appeal to a wide audience." Charles Anderton, Holy Cross College
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Defense economics examines peace as well as defense issues, using such macroeconomic and microeconomic tools as growth theory, static optimization, dynamic optimization, comparative statics, game theory and econometrics. This book provides an up-to-date survey of the field.
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Nice review. However, the competition in the realm of defense/defence economics books is scarce. So don't look around that's it. It provides a balanced and objective description of the economics of defense. It's a bit too old and concetrates on UK. It offers some international comparison, but for that it's better to read some more recent working paper.
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Defense policy is entering a period of momentous change that necessitates the application of rigorous economic analysis if resources are to be allocated efficiently among competing goals in both the defense and civilian sectors. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nonconventional conflict, defense spillins, new civil markets, defense equipment markets, pure public good model, nonmilitary public sector, joint product model, demand for military expenditures, real military expenditures, defense output, deters line, exploitation hypothesis, sufficient missiles, arms race models, net social surplus, rivalry model, ith ally, civilian earnings, civil firms, weapons acquisition process, nonconventional forms, defense sales, defense demand, defense levels, missile stocks Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Soviet Union, United States, Warsaw Pact, Prisoner's Dilemma, Middle East, World War, Vietnam War, Third World, United Nations, West Germany, Eastern Europe, South Korea, Triple Entente, United Kingdom, Department of Defense, New Zealand, Triple Alliance, Western Europe, British Aerospace, General Dynamics, Gulf War, Saudi Arabia, Single European Market, Ypersele de Strihou, Free Trade Area New!
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Defense policy is entering a period of momentous change that necessitates the application of rigorous economic analysis if resources are to be allocated efficiently among competing goals in both the defense and civilian sectors. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nonconventional conflict, defense spillins, new civil markets, defense equipment markets, pure public good model, nonmilitary public sector, joint product model, demand for military expenditures, real military expenditures, defense output, deters line, exploitation hypothesis, sufficient missiles, arms race models, net social surplus, rivalry model, ith ally, civilian earnings, civil firms, weapons acquisition process, nonconventional forms, defense sales, defense demand, defense levels, missile stocks Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Soviet Union, United States, Warsaw Pact, Prisoner's Dilemma, Middle East, World War, Vietnam War, Third World, United Nations, West Germany, Eastern Europe, South Korea, Triple Entente, United Kingdom, Department of Defense, New Zealand, Triple Alliance, Western Europe, British Aerospace, General Dynamics, Gulf War, Saudi Arabia, Single European Market, Ypersele de Strihou, Free Trade Area New!
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- Cost Of Peace by Stephen Kirby on 4 pages
- Arms Industry Limited (A Sipri Publication) by Herbert Wulf on 4 pages
- World Armaments and Disarmament 1975: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Year Book by SIPRI on page 61, page 257, and Back Matter
- United Nations (New True Books) by Carol Greene on page 8, and page 244
- Economic Growth by Robert J. Barro in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- The Economics of Producing Defense: Illustrated By The Israeli Case by Yaacov Lifshitz on 6 pages
- The Arms Trade, Security and Conflict (Routledge Studies in Defence and Peace Economics) by Paul Levine on 5 pages
- Cost Of Peace by Stephen Kirby on 5 pages
- The Economics of Regional Security: NATO, the Mediterranean and Southern Africa (Routledge Studies in Defence and Peace Economics) by Jurgen Brauer on 4 pages
- Militärsoziologie - Eine Einführung (German Edition) by Nina Leonhard on 4 pages
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