Defense, Welfare and Growth - 9780415075992

Taylor & Francis

Expert essays bring together material from many developed and developing countries to determine how defense spending can affect welfare provision and economic growth. > Expert essays bring together material from many developed and developing countries to determine how defense spending can affect welfare provision and economic growth. > List of figures, List of tables, List of contributors, 1 Defense, welfare, and growth: introduction, 2 Defense spending and economic performance: a disaggregated analysis, 3 Political-economic tradeoffs and British relative decline, 4 Guns, butter, and growth: the case of Norway, 5 Eating your cake and having it too: the Japanese case, 6 Models of military expenditure, 7 Economic growth, investment, and military spending in India, 1950\u201388, 8 Muddling through security, growth, and welfare: the political economy of defense spending in South Korea, 9 Military burden, economic growth, and income inequality: the Taiwan exception, 10 The dual econx