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ARMS, POLITICS, AND THE ECONOMY
HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES |
| By: |
Robert Higgs (Editor), William A. Niskanen (Foreword) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£18.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0945999658 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780945999652 |
| Publisher: |
INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE,U.S. |
| Pages: |
295 |
| Description: |
The US Department of Defense is actually one of the world's largest planned economies. Like all planned economies, it has gross inefficiencies. This book is a penetrating analysis of the military-industrial-Congressional complex, and offers new insights into how meaningful reform can be achieved. |
| Synopsis: |
The U. S. Department of Defense is actually one of the world's largest planned economies. Like all planned economies, it has gross inefficiencies. This book is a penetrating analysis of the military-industrial-Congressional complex, and offers new insights into how meaningful reform can be achieved. Prior to World War II, the United States maintained insignificant military forces and weapons manufacturing industries during peace. But the weapons industry that has grown since the end of World War II inhabits an ill-defined zone between genuine private enterprise and complete government planning. Does this unprecedented military-industrial-congressional complex efficiently serve the public's interest in national security? In this book, eleven contributing scholars analyze such questions as whether overall military spending is too high or too low, why the military procurement system remains impervious to reform, and how special interests exploit the system. This book does not leave readers with simple solutions; depoliticizing defense spending and eliminating military procurement mismanagement will not be easy.But this book does lay the foundation of understanding to help necessary reforms take place. |
| Illustrations: |
tabs.ch. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Independent Institute,U.S. |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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