IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/intecp/978-1-349-18898-7_3.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Defence Spending as a Priority

In: Peace, Defence and Economic Analysis

Author

Listed:
  • Andrew Brody

    (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

  • Amartya Sen

Abstract

Defence spending diminishes consumption and also hampers development by draining investible funds. But its most harmful effect consists in the disarray of economic proportions. The present slowdown and high level of pollution may be attributed to the forced industrialisation and militarisation of the 1950s and 1960s. This kind of defence and industrial priority is counter-productive: though it may boost the economy for a shorter or longer stretch of time, it necessarily leads to crippled relationships, mismatches and growing economic, social and political tensions.

Suggested Citation

  • Andrew Brody & Amartya Sen, 1987. "Defence Spending as a Priority," International Economic Association Series, in: Christian Schmidt & Frank Blackaby (ed.), Peace, Defence and Economic Analysis, chapter 3, pages 40-49, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:intecp:978-1-349-18898-7_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-18898-7_3
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:intecp:978-1-349-18898-7_3. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.