Economic issues of disarmament : contributions from peace economics and peace science

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Economic issues of disarmament : contributions from peace economics and peace science

edited by Jurgen Brauer and Manas Chatterji ; foreword by Kenneth J. Arrow

Macmillan, 1993

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The end of the Cold War has had a powerfully negative effect on the arms industry, resulting in the wholescale cancellation of defence contracts and necessitating a fundamental reorganization of the industry. This volume addresses the global economic effects of this development looking at such issues as the effect of economic conversion on the military economy, NATO and Warsaw Pact mutual disarmament, the ramifications of "global peace" for global business, military spending, disarmament and the Third World, the "peace dividend", the environmental effects of disarmament, the impact of military spending on global health and health care, and a wide range of other pertinent and pressing issues.

Table of Contents

  • The peace dividend
  • a not on peace dividend and reallocation of knowledge skills
  • macroeconomic consequences of disarmament
  • the autonomous power of organization
  • capital accounting in national defence organizations
  • world modelling on consequences of military expenditure
  • prospects for arms control - bilateral, unilateral and multilateral
  • arms and troops reduction in Europe
  • conversion and the future direction of defence contractors
  • structural barriers to converting the U.S. economy
  • policy dimensions of economic conversion
  • conversion in the U.S. and U.S.S.R.
  • the impact of military spending on health and health care in industrialized and developing countries
  • substituting employment form environmental cleanup of defense facilities for jobs lost through disarmament
  • arms spending and development in the Third World countries
  • defence, growth and arms production in developing nations
  • data on arms trade - what they are an dwhat they are not
  • real world military expenditures
  • military spending and investment in the U.S.
  • the follow-on imperative in American weapons procurement, 1960-1990
  • implications of transition toward a market-oriented economy in teh U.S.S.R. and eastern Europe
  • global economic dynamism and global peace
  • from the dismal science to the science of global harmony
  • the world economy as a cybernetic system.

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