The economic analysis of disarmament in the next millennium may be developed from three main perspectives: At the end of the 20th century, the data seem to confirm, at least partially, the reality of a world disarmament process. There is an obsolescence of the disarmament analyses developed...

The experience of Russia in the field of conversion indicates that it is a costly process, because large expenditures are needed to compensate the enterprises for the losses produced by decreases in defence production and by the maintenance of average wages and salaries, without efficient...

Galbraith, as economist of the peace, denounces excessive militarism. According to him, the military sector is indeed particularly illustrative of the power of the technostructures which are partially autonomous, escaping all democratic control. Galbraith was led to develop a heterodox thought...

The current development of Russia is not based on the values of military production and this country does not satisfy the fundamental conditions of an arms race. However, old weapons remain present in Russia. Besides, the military sector is fundamentally dependent on the level of development and...

This article delineates the history of how disarmament became a concept in economic thought and reviews the relevant writings of economists such as Veblen, Wicksell, Pareto, Schumpeter, Hilferding, Luxemburg, Lenin, Bukharin, Sombart, Keynes, Pigou, and Robbins, and of selected classical...

In the post-Cold War context of decreasing military expenditures and arms-market crisis, France has redefined its defence policy, giving up the model of protected arms production and exports while reasserting its military and strategic ambitions. But does the country still have the means of its...

This article links the development of political and philosophical thought with that of economic thought concerning war and peace issues. The economic orthodoxy that emerged during the 17th century presented human relations as peaceful, society being governed by a 'natural order', the Smithian...

During the 19th century, the Utopian economists (as Karl Marx ironically nicknamed them) developed some revolutionary projects of social organisation, breaking away from capitalism. Opposed to political violence, their writings anticipated a peaceful evolution towards a social model similar to...

The economics of disarmament is a new discipline. It involves analyses on the economic causes of the arms race, the definitions of disarmament and the economic determinants and military expenditure. Simultaneously, disarmament is considered as an obstacle to economic development, a peace...

Unlike its European counterparts, the peace movement in France is not very strong. The reasons for this are many: The Munich Syndrome, a contempt for pacifism confused with cowardice, a desire for na tional independence in defence, a belief in the global role of France, an absence of genuine...