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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
1950-88
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 economy and Arab-Israeli use of force: a transnational system?
11 The impact of military expenditures on human-capital development in the Arab Gulf states
12 Military participation
economic growth
and income inequality: a cross-national study
13 Do we yet know who pays for defense? Conclusions and synthesis
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