Peace, Defence and Economic Analysis: Proceedings of a Conference held in Stockholm jointly by the International Economic Association and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Unilateral National Defence Organisations: An Economic Analysis of Non-economic Structures....Pages 3-19
Peace and War Economics in Retrospect: Some Reflections on the Historical Background of Defence Economics....Pages 20-39
Defence Spending as a Priority....Pages 40-49
Front Matter....Pages 51-51
The Uses, Value and Limitations of Game Theoretic Methods in Defence Analysis....Pages 53-84
Conflicts, Arms Races and War: A Synthetic Approach....Pages 85-103
Arms Races and the Outbreak of War: Application of Principal-agent Relationships and Asymmetric Information....Pages 104-121
Economic Considerations in the Comparison Between Assured Destruction and Assured Survival....Pages 122-154
Economic Warfare between the Superpowers....Pages 155-181
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
Economic Change as a Cause of International Conflict....Pages 185-205
Whither Modernisation and Militarisation? Implications for International Security and Arms Control....Pages 206-232
The Current Warfare/Welfare Alternative and the Evidence from Technology....Pages 233-249
Military Expenditure Comparisons....Pages 250-265
The Economics of Military Spending: Is the Military Dollar Really Different....Pages 266-301
Military-related Debt in Non-oil Developing Countries, 1972–82....Pages 302-318
Front Matter....Pages 319-319
Military Expenditure Dynamics and a World Model....Pages 321-341
Time-series Estimates of the Macroeconomic Impact of Defence Spending in France and the UK....Pages 342-362
NATO Burden-sharing: Rules or Reality?....Pages 363-383
Defence and Employment in the UK and France: A Comparative Study of the Existing Results....Pages 384-398
Reducing Defence Expenditure: A Public Choice Analysis and a Case Study of the UK....Pages 399-423
The Conversion of Military Activities: A Strategic Management of the Firm Perspective....Pages 424-437
Back Matter....Pages 439-450