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Is War Necessary for Economic Growth?: Military Procurement and Technology Development New Edition
Author(s): Vernon W. Ruttan (Author)
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication Date: 5 Jan. 2006
- Edition: New
- Language: English
- Print length: 232 pages
- ISBN-10: 0195188047
- ISBN-13: 9780195188042
Book Description
Military and defence related procurement has been an important source of technology development across a broad spectrum of industries that account for an important share of United States industrial production. Changes in the structure of the defence industries and of the U.S. industrial economy make it unlikely that military and defence related procurement would again become an important source of revolutionary new technologies in the absence of a majorwar.
