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Butter and guns: Complementarity between economic and military competition
Grossman, Herschel I.; Mendoza, Juan - In: Economics of Governance 2 (2001) 1, pp. 25-33
allegiance of subjects causes rival rulers to bear all of the cost of allocating production to military competition and to bear … of subjects and military competition for the control of land. In our model economic competition between rival rulers for … the allegiance of subjects results in their subjects, whether they are producers or soldiers, receiving incomes equal to …
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Butter and guns: complementarity between economic and military competition
Grossman, Herschel I.; Mendoza, Juan - In: Conflict and governance, (pp. 23-31). 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001800222
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Butter and guns: complementarity between economic and military competition
Grossman, Herschel I.; Mendoza, Juan - In: Economics of governance 2 (2001) 1, pp. 25-33
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Predation, efficiency, and inequality
Grossman, Herschel I.; Kim, Minseong - 2002
This paper analyzes a general-equilibrium model in which each person can choose to be either a producer or a predator. This model shows how predation breaks the link between the interpersonal distribution of productive resources and the interpersonal distribution of consumption. Specifically, we...
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Defense Economy and Military Reform in Russia in 2016
Zatsepin, Vasily - 2017
In 2016, the main provisions of the military reform started in 2008 and approved by the Executive Order of President …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012952643
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A Rational Choice Model Applied to Private Security Companies Military PSCM (Un Modelo de Decisión Racional Aplicado a las Compañías Militares de Seguridad Privada CMSP) (Spanish)...
Estrada, Fernando - 2010
This paper aims to present a rational decision model applied to studies of private military security companies. These …
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Defence Economy and the Military Security in Russia in 2006
Zatsepin, Vasily; Tsymbal, Vitaly - 2015
, notwithstanding certain setbacks that occurred in implementing military reform, solving the social problems of the military and … to positively characterize the level of the State’s level of security and the efforts of the RF military establishment …
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Creating Balance in Dynamic Competitions
Clark, Derek J. - 2020
We consider incentives for organizing competitions in multiple rounds, focusing on situations where there is heterogeneity among the contestants ex ante, which discourages effort in a single contest. Heterogeneity evolves across rounds depending upon the outcomes of previous rounds. We present...
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Partisan Competition, Growth and the Franchise
Llavador, Humberto; Oxoby, Robert J. - 2004
The nineteenth century was a time of substantial changes in the patterns of economic growth and the structure of and allocation of political rights. The concurrence of these changes is not coincidental. We develop a model in which ideological parties representing elites use the allocation of...
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Chapter 21 Economics of Defense in a Globalized World
McGuire, Martin C. - In: Handbook of defense economics : volume 2, Defense in a …, (pp. 623-648). 2007
In a world continuously beset by conflict and violence, the positive study of international security and defense has developed rapidly over the past decade as a cohesive discipline within economics. Part of the cause for this trend is the revolutionary effects of globalization and its new...
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