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Book Allocation of Resources in the Soviet Union and China

Download or read book Allocation of Resources in the Soviet Union and China written by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Priorities and Economy in Government and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Political Economy of Military Spending in the United States

Download or read book The Political Economy of Military Spending in the United States written by Alex Mintz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-31 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a timely collection of essays utilizing the political economy approach to military spending, primarily by the United States. The articles deal specifically with the relationships between defense spending and: (a) political-business cycles, public opinion and the US-Soviet relationship; (b) military action - i.e. war; (c) economic performance - the trade deficit, guns versus butter issues and fiscal policy.

Book Defense Spending And Economic Growth

Download or read book Defense Spending And Economic Growth written by James E. Payne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the impact defense spending has on economic growth. While defense spending was not deliberately invented as a fiscal policy instrument, its importance in the composition of overall government spending and thus in determining employment is now easily recognized. In light of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the consequent reduction in the threat to the security of the United States, maintaining defense spending at the old level seems indefensible. The media has concentrated on the so-called peace dividend. However, as soon as the federal government is faced with defense cuts, it realizes the macroeconomic ramifications of such a step. Based on studies included in this volume, we examine the effects of defense spending on economic growth and investigate how the changed world political climate is likely to alter the importance and pattern of defense spending both for developed and developing countries.

Book Sitting on Bayonets

Download or read book Sitting on Bayonets written by Abraham Samuel Becker and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sitting on Bayonets

Download or read book Sitting on Bayonets written by Abraham Samuel Becker and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not too many years ago, the burden of Soviet defense seemed a secondary issue. The conventional estimates of the size of the burden were low and the Soviet economy was growing rapidly. Now, the era of rapid growth seems to have come to an end and the Western estimates of the burden are much higher. The conjunction generates intense interest in the relation between the two developments. Especially important is the role of the defense burden in shaping future growth prospects. How serious a drag on the economy does the Soviet military budget represent? Is cutting defense spending the solution to current Soviet economic problems? Will the military budget nevertheless continue to grow? These questions are the focus of the present paper. The first section considers the various estimates of the size of the Soviet defense burden. It is followed by a discussion of the connections between defense burden and resource allocation choices. A final section speculates on the implications for future defense spending.

Book Political Economy of Soviet Military Power

Download or read book Political Economy of Soviet Military Power written by Leo Cooper and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-06-18 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the political economy of Soviet military power, examining Soviet Russian ideology and tradition, theory and practice of the military doctrine, the domestic aspect and new economic realism, technology and efficiency, and Perestroika and Glasnost from 1985-1987.

Book Soviet Defense Spending

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  • Author : Noel E. Firth
  • Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780890968055
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Soviet Defense Spending written by Noel E. Firth and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Cold War, when the United States' intelligence efforts were focused on the Soviet Union, one of the primary tasks of the Central Intelligence Agency was to estimate Soviet defense spending. In Soviet Defense Spending: A History of CIA Estimates, 1950-1990, Noel E. Firth and James H. Noren, who spent much of their long CIA careers estimating and studying Soviet defense spending, provide a closer look at those estimates and consider how and why they were made. In the process, the authors chronicle the development of a significant intelligence analytic capability. Firth and Noren also explain what the CIA has learned since the collapse of the Soviet Union about the USSR's actual military spending during the Cold War.

Book The Political Economy of Soviet Defence Spending

Download or read book The Political Economy of Soviet Defence Spending written by R.T. Maddock and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Political Economy of Soviet Defence Spending

Download or read book The Political Economy of Soviet Defence Spending written by Roland Thomas Maddock and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Defense and the Soviet Economy

Download or read book Defense and the Soviet Economy written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Russia s Economy

Download or read book Russia s Economy written by Charles Wolf (Jr.) and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2006 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen years after the Soviet Union's demise, the Russian economy can still be appropriately characterized as transitional. The authors shed light on ambiguities surrounding this status through an exploration of four questions related to issues of interest to government decisionmakers.

Book The Impoverished Superpower

Download or read book The Impoverished Superpower written by Henry S. Rowen and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another look backward (or maybe sideways) by the hawks connected to the US defense establishment and the RAND Corporation. This time they're telling us about the horrors of the Soviet economy and their unquenchable military. No mention is made of Soviet military cutbacks, the lack of same by the US, or American political and military efforts to provoke just this sort of crisis in the Soviet economy. (RC) Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book The Macroeconomic Dimensions Of Arms Reduction

Download or read book The Macroeconomic Dimensions Of Arms Reduction written by F Gerard Adams and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1992-11-17 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An evaluation of how reduced defence expenditures may affect economic performance in the United States and other industrial market economies, in the developing world and in the countries of the former Soviet bloc.

Book Defense and the Soviet Economy

Download or read book Defense and the Soviet Economy written by Charles Wolf and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 1992 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Note examines the defense sector's role in the former Soviet economy. It argues that despite the changes that have occurred in Europe since 1989, it is still useful to understand the size and composition of the military economy of the former Soviet Union. Accurate assessment of military forces, spending, and technology continues to be important because the Russian military establishment has inherited most of these elements, and Russia remains a significant factor in the international balance of power. Also, the military sector of the former Soviet Union plays a significant role in that economy. This prominence is a contributing factor in the laggard performance of the republics' economies. If this trend is to be reversed, it is important to move toward a smaller defense sector whose resource allocations are acquired through a more transparent and accountable process than in the past. Finally, the military's access to scarce resources is a significant reflection of its political role, as well as a contributor to it. The status of the defense sector indicates the relative domestic political strength of the heretofore powerful interests associated with it. This Note is divided into six parts: (1) methods for estimating the size of the Soviet economy and its performance; (2) effects of Perestroika on the defense sector; (3) Soviet allocative choices as between the military and other sectors; (4) effects of foreign trade on the Soviet defense sector; (5) monetary aspects of the contemporary Soviet economy; and (6) conversion of Soviet defense industry.

Book Study on the Economic and Social Consequences of the Arms Race and Military Expenditures

Download or read book Study on the Economic and Social Consequences of the Arms Race and Military Expenditures written by United Nations. Department for Disarmament Affairs and published by New York : United Nations. This book was released on 1989 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Military Expansion  Economic Decline

Download or read book Military Expansion Economic Decline written by Robert DeGrasse and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: