This paper attempts to concisely detail the evolution of Britain's post-war defense posture. Dividing it into six phases between 1945 and 1979 its emphasis is on the trends with regard to defense spending as a share of GDP, the manning of the forces, their mission and deployment internationally,...

It is the conventional wisdom that fiction about spies and espionage became less popular after the Cold War, but this is generally claimed in a casual, intuitive way. This paper attempts to check this wide belief against the data provided by the New York Times and Publisher's Weekly bestseller...

This paper presents an analysis of the rise and decline of British economic predominance which emphasizes the interaction of geography with other economic, technological and political forces amid a context of other actors similarly shaped by such interactions. It argues for this interaction as...

This brief note raises the complex matter of the concept of rent-seeking, particularly as it connects with the author's prior discussion of Keynesian Fordism and Neoliberal Financialization. In doing so the author argues that where Keynesian Fordism, in line with its leveraging of the...

This working paper addresses the matter of Japan's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth from 1990 on (and in particular the slowness of its growth relative to other advanced industrial states). Taking into account the sharp contraction of its working-age population, it presents calculations of...

This working paper takes up the subject of the highly publicized announcements of the German and Japanese governments of sharply increasing their defense spending and puts it into context. In particular it considers1. The longer history of Germany and Japan's movement away from their post-World...

This note, acknowledging the ambiguities in the discussion of deindustrialization due to the scarcity of data on countries' real manufacturing output over time, considers Britain's output between the 1970s and the present as calculated in 2015 U.S. dollars both through the use of deflators to...

This paper extends the author's prior use of CPI-adjusted current dollar figures to examine American and British deindustrialization by similarly using the method to adjust United Nations current dollar figures regarding these nations' manufacturing output alongside the data for Germany and...

This working paper takes up the question of the "decline" of the neoliberal economic model. Acknowledging the reality of not only the generally weak growth during which that model has prevailed (from the late 1970s on) but the post-Great Recession slowdown in that growth, with its implications...

This working paper extends the author's prior analysis of recent data on Gross Domestic Product with a region-by-region examination of the World Bank's time series for selected regions and countries over the 1961-2019 period, with a focus on the trend post-Great Recession--emphasizing the...