The Permanent War Economy
Author: Seymour Melman
Publisher: Touchstone
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 394
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Author: Seymour Melman
Publisher: Touchstone
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 394
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: T. N. Vance
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 96
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Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
Published: 2012-04-01
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1597975338
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edited volume reveals how a permanent war economy has made the United States unable to spread democracy abroad and has worsened domestic problems. The editors draw from classical readings in political theory, from primary documents (including key court decisions), and from social science research to analyze such issues as the effect of militarization and combativeness on the everyday lives of Americans. The editors also address the dire connection among banking losses, the housing recession, the welfare/national security state, and the challenge of rebuilding AmericaÆs infrastructure.
Author: T. N. Vance
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 88
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jane Meadows
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Published: 2021
Total Pages: 92
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Permanent War Economy, originating in the 1940s, has produced decades of excessive defense spending, contributing to waste that detracts funds from social expenditures to meet domestic needs. Previous research on this topic has focused greatly on the origins and causes of this economy with little emphasis on modern solutions to solve this problem and little focus on policy alternatives that can be funded with decreases in defense spending. In this thesis, I use data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the White House Office of Management and Budget, and Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) to compose a timeline of how defense spending has changed from 1962 to 2020, how U.S. defense spending compares to the rest of the world, and how much the United States could have saved from 1999 to 2019 had it spent the global average percentage of GDP on defense, which I then use to illustrate a number of alternative domestic programs that could be funded with the consequent savings. My findings indicate support for the theory of the Permanent War Economy and show that it is possible for the United States to decrease defense spending and reallocate those funds to domestic programs while maintaining a position of global military strength. - Abstract.
Author: Thomas K. Duncan
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Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis paper explains the origins of the permanent war economy in the United States. We emphasize the combined efforts of three key interest groups (military, labor unions, and industry) that arose in the context of the dual crises of the Great Depression and World War II. During the depression and the war that followed, there arose a partnership between industry, the military, and politicians. These crises, combined with the State's monopoly over the military, created the opportunity for these interests to influence the trajectory of economic activity in a self-serving, and lasting, manner.
Author: Joshua O. Reno
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2020-02-04
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 0520974123
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWorld War III has yet to happen, and yet material evidence of this conflict is strewn everywhere: resting at the bottom of the ocean, rusting in deserts, and floating in near-Earth orbit. In Military Waste, Joshua O. Reno offers a unique analysis of the costs of American war preparation through an examination of the lives and stories of American civilians confronted with what is left over and cast aside when a society is permanently ready for war. Using ethnographic and archival research, Reno demonstrates how obsolete military junk in its various incarnations affects people and places far from the battlegrounds that are ordinarily associated with warfare. Using a broad swath of examples—from excess planes, ships, and space debris that fall into civilian hands, to the dispossessed and polluted island territories once occupied by military bases, to the militarized masculinities of mass shooters—Military Waste reveals the unexpected and open-ended relationships that non-combatants on the home front form with a nation permanently ready for war.
Author: Alan S. Milward
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780520039421
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This remarkable book should be the standard work for a long time. A true comparative study, it relates the experience of all the main countries (and sometimes others) to a series of key issues that are deftly analyzed and not just described. In addition to the basics--production, consumption, food, finance and organization--the book deals with such famous themes as war as the bringer-of-growth and stimulus-to-technology, and such special questions as the exploitation of occupied areas and economic warfare. Throughout, Professor Milward of Manchester relates economics to strategy in an illuminating way."--Foreign Affairs "An admirable state-of-the-arts report on what we know about how agriculture, population, technology, labor, industrial production, and public finance were affected by the war. He also sets out some highly challenging findings concerning the rationale and effectiveness of economic strategy as applied b the main powers. And he has tentatively advanced some large concepts about the nature of advanced economies as revealed by the manner in which they strove to cope with the war. His approach is broadly comparative: he gives us an account not only of the relative economic performance of individual European powers, but also of the Japanese and American war economies, plus a few observations on the situation in many smaller countries from Australia to Yugoslavia. The book is a mine of information and arresting concepts."--American Historical Review "Milward displays an impressive mastery of his material, both from a historical and economic point of view. He uses quantification effectively, but the book can be read with ease and pleasure by those who are neither trained in nor interested in econometrics. Lucidly written, this superb work deserves a much wider audience than merely specialists."--Journal of Economic Literature "Milward's portrayal of events operates on the proposition that strategic deicions cannot be understood apart from the economic considerations which each leader or government had to take into account. . . . a permanent contribution to our understanding of World War II. Henceforth it will be hard to escape his contention that the big battalions that counted were those on the production line."--Journal of Interdisciplinary History
Author: Samir Amin
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2004-05
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 1583671072
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA critique of America's project to dominate the world through military force.
Author: Thomas K. Duncan
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Published: 2023
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe U.S. economy has been in a state of “permanent war” since at least World War II. The war economy arises from institutional changes that become embedded within the system with each of the 20th and 21st century conflicts. This chapter illustrates the continuing relevance of Robert Higgs in assessing how these institutional changes emerge and the true costs of the permanent war economy.