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Books on: historical defense spending

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The Changing Dynamics of U. S. Defense Spending

Book by Leon V. Sigal; Praeger Publishers, 1999

Subjects:

United States--Armed Forces--Appropriations And Expenditures, United States--Dept. Of Defense--Appropriations And Expenditures

Collections: Entire Library

Probing beneath the stable surface of the political and economic environment for defense spending, this book reveals pressures for change and conflict in Congress, the news media, and the defense industry. It shows how fewer Congressional districts are getting larger shares of the Pentagon pie and ...
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Probing beneath the stable surface of the political and economic environment for defense spending, this book reveals pressures for change and conflict in Congress, the news media, and the defense industry. It shows how fewer Congressional districts are getting larger shares of the Pentagon pie and questions whether new weapons help preserve the defense industry.
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Defense Spending and Economic Growth

Book by James E. Payne, Anandi P. Sahu; Westview Press, 1993

Subjects:

Armed Forces--Appropriations And Expenditures, Disarmament--Economic Aspects, Economic Conversion, Economic Development, War--Economic Aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...of the relationship between military spending and economic performance will be altered...and the spillover spinoff effects of defense outlays may be predicted to remain largely...however,...have had their roots in historical enmities within and among developing...
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Soviet Defense Spending: A History of CIA Estimates, 1950-1990

Book by James H. Noren, Noel E. Firth; Texas A&M University Press, 1998

Subjects:

Cold War, Intelligence Service--United States, Soviet Union--Armed Forces--Appropriations And Expenditures

Collections: History, Entire Library

...6.4. CIAs Historical Estimates...of Soviet Defense Activities...Soviet Defense Spending and Confidence...with key historical events of...on Soviet defense spending would be...interpretation of historical and current ruble spending patterns...of Soviet defense policy. No...
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The Culture of Spending: Why Congress Lives beyond Our Means

Book by James L. Payne; Ics Press, 1991

Subjects:

Government Spending Policy--United States

Collections: Entire Library

...8 The Anomaly of Defense Spending 135 III Controlling Spending...government was called upon to supply police and defense services. The benefits of public spending on the traditional public goods were so...
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Control of Federal Spending

Book by C. Lowell Harriss; Academy of Political Science, 1985

Subjects:

Budget Deficits--United States, Budget--United States, Cost Control, Government Spending Policy--United States

Collections: Entire Library

...savings for most defense recommendations...not founded on historical data, detailed...Other Mandatory Spending Programs The...Department of Defense DOD and the...excessive Federal spending, prevention of...consequences have historically been avoided...engage in deficit spending, and spend yet...

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Journal Articles on: historical defense spending

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Employment Effects of the Rise and Fall in Defense Spending

Journal article by Norman C. Saunders; Monthly Labor Review, Vol. 116, 1993

Subjects:

Defense spending--Economic aspects, Employment forecasting--Analysis

Collections: Entire Library

...difference between defense spending in 1976 and 1977 is...place. APPENDIX: Historical data exist for real...program of detailed historical data estimation and...relationship between defense spending and employment in the...
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Defense-Related Employment and Spending, 1996-2006

Journal article by Allison Thomson; Monthly Labor Review, Vol. 121, 1998

Subjects:

Defense industry--Employment, Defense spending--Forecasts, Employment forecasting--Statistics, Manufacturing industry--Employment

Collections: Entire Library

...spending, 1996...Defense-related share...employment over the historical and projected...Methodology Defense spending and defense-related employment...input-output tables. Historical data on Government...
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Why Spending Has Got to Give

Journal article by David R. Henderson; Policy Review, 2006

Subjects:

Budget--Analysis, Defense spending--Forecasts and trends, Defense spending--Political aspects, Expenditures, Public--Forecasts and trends, Expenditures, Public--Political aspects, Expenditures, Public--Social aspects, Federal budget--Analysis, Public expenditures--Forecasts and trends, Public expenditures--Political aspects, Public expenditures--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...percent of GDP (see Figure 1). Yet some historical constants and some facts about Americans...this observer to believe that federal spending will come nowhere close to 40 percent...consider the bad news: the news on spending. Defense spending rose by $161 billion between...
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Defense, Nondefense Expenditures, and Inflation: An Empirical Analysis

Journal article by Anandi P. Sahu, James E. Payne, Robert T. Kleiman; Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics, Vol. 34, 1995

Subjects:

Defense spending--Analysis, Expenditures, Public--Analysis, Inflation (Finance)--Analysis

Collections: Entire Library

...Vitalianos result and suggests that his finding that defense spending has no effect on inflation is not dependent on his...is obtained by regressing current inflation against historical values of inflation. Nourzad deals with Vitalianos...
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The Defense Buildup, 1977-85: Effects on Production and Employment

Journal article by David K. Henry, Richard P. Oliver; Monthly Labor Review, Vol. 110, 1987

Subjects:

Armed Forces--Contracts, Defense industry--Employment, Defense spending--Analysis, Industrial productivity--Analysis, United States. Department of Defense--Finance, Working class--Analysis

Collections: Entire Library

...the high growth 1980-85 period, the study shows the impact of increased U.S. military spending on industries with defense-related production. Historical trends The current peacetime buildup began in 1977. In 1976, $157.5 billion (1982 constant...

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Magazine Articles on: historical defense spending

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Foreign Policy Tools: Defense Spending

Magazine article by Michael O'Hanlon; Brookings Review, Vol. 15, Spring 1997

Subjects:

Defense spending--Analysis, United States. Department of Defense--Finance

Collections: Entire Library

...weapons procurement spending. IS THERE A...at or near its historical peak in quality...Department of Defense employees are...next decade. Defense spending would be lower...assuming that real defense spending increases will...
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House Appropriations Committee-Defense

Magazine article by Robert M. Gates; U.S. Department of Defense Speeches, March 29, 2007

Subjects:

Defense spending--Government finance, Defense spending--Military aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...tag--more than $700 billion--in some historical context as there has been, understandably...United States is expected to spend on defense this year is actually a smaller percentage...United States has either slashed defense spending or disarmed outright in the mistaken...
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Raise the Anchor or Lower the Ship: Defense Budgeting and Planning

Magazine article by James R. Schlesinger; The National Interest, Fall 1998

Subjects:

Defense spending--Management, International relations--Management, Military planning--Technique, Military policy--Management

Collections: Entire Library

...projected levels of defense spending. One can always do with...But it is clear that defense policy and the defense...Eyck, addressing our Historical Association on Bismarck...detailed analysis of defense spending by the Center for Strategic...
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Senate Appropriations Committee

Magazine article; U.S. Department of Defense Speeches, May 9, 2007

Subjects:

Armed Forces--Government finance, Armed forces--Government finance, Defense spending--Strategic aspects, Gates, Robert M.--Speeches, lectures and essays

Collections: Entire Library

...and the war-related requests--in some historical context, as there has been, understandably...United States is expected to spend on defense this year is actually a smaller percentage...United States has either slashed defense spending or disarmed outright in the mistaken...
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Saving Defense Dollars

Magazine article by David Callahan; Foreign Policy, Fall 1994

Subjects:

Defense spending--Planning, Military policy--Planning, Security, International--Analysis

Collections: Entire Library

...To reach Iraqs 1990 defense spending level of $8.6 billion...significant new resources into defense, at the same time as...justifies continued high spending on antisubmarine warfare...Restructuring the defense budget in accordance...

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Newspaper Articles on: historical defense spending

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Defense Spending Trends

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 4, 2007

Subjects:

Defense spending--Government finance

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...readers to understand current spending levels in the context of historical trends. Annual military spending passed two important milestones in fiscal 2006. First, nominal defense spending exceeded half a trillion dollars for the first time in...
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Defense Spending Beacons

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 1, 2008

Subjects:

Defense spending--Government finance

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...relative loss of American life since 1945 (when the Cold War began), it is clear that U.S. defense spending has been money well-spent. Indeed, by any historical comparison, American casualties have been remarkably low, thanks in large part to our...
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Defense Bill's Veto History Debunked; White House Cites Three Previous Rejections

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 3, 2007

Subjects:

Bills, Legislative--Laws, regulations and rules, Defense spending--Laws, regulations and rules, Legislative bills--Laws, regulations and rules

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Clearly they havent bothered to check the historical record, which would show that theyre...has said he will veto the $648 billion defense authorization bill, which sets out Pentagon...Bush has promised to veto because of spending levels, but it heightens the current...
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Beijing Tries to Allay U.S. Military Fears; Says Buildup Needed for Troops' Pay, Fuel

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 5, 2008

Subjects:

Defense spending, Soldiers--Compensation and benefits

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...defense capabilities." Mr. Jiang cited figures of an annual decline in Chinas defense spending "of 5.83 percent between 1979 and 1989" without going into certain historical facts that influenced the cuts. The cutbacks were part of Communist Party...
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'03 War Spending Brings Deficit

Newspaper article by Donald Lambro; The Washington Times, January 24, 2002

Subjects:

Daniels, Mitchell E., Jr.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...be temporary and relatively modest by historical standards. "Here we are in a recession...Daniels said there would be substantial spending cuts throughout the rest of the budget to partially offset increased spending for defense and anti-terrorism programs, but he refused...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: historical defense spending

4 results

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United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...United States (latest ed.) and Susan B. Carter et al., ed., Historical Statistics of the United States (2006). Brief general histories...Physiography of Eastern United States (1938); R. H. Brown, Historical Geography of the United States (1948); National Geographic...
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Massachusetts

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...computer and electronics sectors, much of it spurred by defense spending, helped Massachusetts prosper during much of the 1980s...Massachusetts (2 vol., 1988); R. Wilkie and J. Tager, ed., Historical Atlas of Massachusetts (1991...
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Turkey , Country, Asia and Europe

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...to hold that post. After an economic boom in the late 1980s, high inflation, a large foreign debt, and the impact of deficit spending led to a financial crisis in 1994. Social stability was disrupted, and Islamic fundamentalists became increasingly popular...
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Washington , State, United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Washington was an important center of the defense industry during World War II, particularly...Industry In the postwar period military spending continued to pour into such facilities...1986); J. W. Scott and R. L. DeLorme, Historical Atlas of Washington (1988...

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