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A dynamic model of capital and arms accumulation [PDF]
How does competitive arms accumulation affect investment and capital accumulation? In a dynamic optimization framework including both investment and military spending, we find that, when the utility function is separable between consumption and the ...
Heng-fu Zou
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U.S. transnational corporate investment in strategic sectors of the South African military-industrial complex [PDF]
, 1980 Transnational firms from all the core capitalist countries after World War II played a crucial role in transforming South Africa's mineral-based economy into a modern, industrial, increasingly militarized ...
Makgetla, Neva, Seidman, Ann
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Forecasting military expenditure
Research & Politics, 2014 To what extent do frequently cited determinants of military spending allow us to predict and forecast future levels of expenditure? The authors draw on the data and specifications of a recent model on military expenditure and assess the predictive power ...
Tobias Böhmelt, Vincenzo Bove
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The U.S. Employment Effects of Military and Domestic Spending Priorities: An Updated Analysis [PDF]
In this study, produced in collaboration with the Institute for Policy Studies, Robert Pollin and Heidi Garrett-Peltier update their earlier analysis of the relative employment impacts of public investment in military versus other priorities, expanding ...
Heidi Garrett-Peltier, Robert Pollin
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Investing In Veterans: The Need for Career and Education Advising [PDF]
, 2013 Federal education benefits for veterans represent a substantial investment -- $18 billion since 2009 under the Post-9/11 GI Bill -- in the development of a skilled American workforce.
Charlotte Cahill
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The Mongolian Journal of International Affairs, 2013 With the collapse of the Soviet Union, Mongolia lost its twentieth century protector, and has had to navigate Asian and global politics at a time when China is becoming a dominant economic and military power.
Robert E Bedeski
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Optimal Military Spending in the US: A Time Series Analysis [PDF]
This paper extends previous work on the optimal size of government spend- ing by including nested functional decompositions of military spending into consumption and investment. Post World War II US data are then used to estimate nested non-linear growth
Giorgio d'Agostino +2 more
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Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies: FY2015 Appropriations [PDF]
, 2015 [Excerpt] The Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies appropriations bill provides funding for the planning, design, construction, alteration, and improvement of facilities used by active and reserve military components worldwide ...
Else, Daniel H +2 more
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Global communication and political culture in the semi-periphery: The rise of the Globo corporation [PDF]
, 2008 This article will offer a description and explanation of the rise of the Brazilian media corporation Globo by situating it in the context of the periphery and semi-periphery of the World System and the globalisation of communication.
Wilkin, P
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Aisthesis, 2016 The First World War was the scenario that led to the invention and systematic use of military camouflage techniques. Between them, the two fundamental modes of static or pictorial camouflage: mimetic, known as Disruptive Pattern Material, and the naval ...
Maite Méndez Baiges
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