Military industrialization and economic development : theory and historical case studies
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Military industrialization and economic development : theory and historical case studies
Dartmouth Pub. Co., c1992
Available at 13 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-117)
"UNIDIR--United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research."
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book develops a framework for the analysis of the relationship between arms production and economic development in different types of economies and international conditions. Technological and organizational factors are taken into account. The case studies include Japan and Great Britain before World War I and Brazil and the USA after World War II. The main finding of the book is that the nature of the relationship, whether positive or negative, between military industrialization and economic development is context-dependent. In the rising powers the relationship tends to be positive and in the declining powers, negative. The establishment of a viable capital-goods industry and the constructive intervention of state are necessary preconditions for the military industrialization and its positive spin-off effects. A period of accelerated growth in the world economy facilitates the operation of such a spin-off mechanism. While the relationship of arms production and economic development in declining powers is necessarily complex, it tends to be negative. The basic character of military R&D and procurement means that they become self-inflicted burdens on the nation's economy.
It becomes separated from the international civilian market and its competitive pressures, thus depriving it of the dynamic factors of growth.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Science, technology and the arms race: technology - civilian and military
- linkages between civilian and military technologies
- international structure and technology
- organization, technology and the arms race
- technology and economic dynamics
- security, power and development
- the structure of the study. Part 2 Military production and the rise of Japan - 1863-1914: the Meiji restoration
- industrial development
- the Japanese military
- military industry. Part 3 Military production and British decline: the decline of Britain
- military strategy and industry
- Britain's international position
- military production and spin-offs. Part 4 Military production and the US decline: is the United States declining?
- military R military roots of the economic decline
- the semiconductor industry. Part 5 Brazil - military industrialization and technological autonomy: history of military industry
- autonomy and dependence
- the doctrine of security and development
- the arms manufacturers
- military industry - a national objective
- arms exports
- military technology and development.
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