Is War Necessary for Economic Growth?: Military Procurement and Technology Development by Vernon W. Ruttan
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Overview: This book is about military R&D and procurement and technology development (forget the first title chosen by the publisher's marketing department; rather use the author's subtitle that tells you exactly what to expect).
It is an important, thorough, dispassionate, and easy to read book all in one.
Vernon Ruttan, distinguished economist of technological change has struck again and addressed a topic that is as explored little by scholars as it is ideologically and politically laden. Proponents try to justify any military expenditures with the (uncertain) promise of civilian "spin-offs" (in addition to ex ante declared military requirements --remember "star wars"?), and critics always highlight failures (remember nuclear powered aircrafts?) as well as excessive costs of military technologies ignoring their early life cycle nature of almost one-of-a-kind technology and the indeed substantial (even if often unplanned or unintended) civilian application potentials.
Vernon Ruttan reviews through seven careful case studies of socalled general purpose technologies the history and the economic implications of a number of military technologies that have yielded far reaching civilian applications with enormous economic and social significance: interchangeable parts in rifle manufacturing that give birth to the socalled American "system of manufacturing" (and invented in Army armories rather than in Eli Whitney's "lab"), military aircraft and propulsion systems (jet engines in particular), nuclear power (reactors), computers and semiconductors, the internet (in case you did not know, it all started with military R&D money), and finally the space industries (satellites).
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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Requirements: .PDF reader, 1.8 MB
Overview: This book is about military R&D and procurement and technology development (forget the first title chosen by the publisher's marketing department; rather use the author's subtitle that tells you exactly what to expect).
It is an important, thorough, dispassionate, and easy to read book all in one.
Vernon Ruttan, distinguished economist of technological change has struck again and addressed a topic that is as explored little by scholars as it is ideologically and politically laden. Proponents try to justify any military expenditures with the (uncertain) promise of civilian "spin-offs" (in addition to ex ante declared military requirements --remember "star wars"?), and critics always highlight failures (remember nuclear powered aircrafts?) as well as excessive costs of military technologies ignoring their early life cycle nature of almost one-of-a-kind technology and the indeed substantial (even if often unplanned or unintended) civilian application potentials.
Vernon Ruttan reviews through seven careful case studies of socalled general purpose technologies the history and the economic implications of a number of military technologies that have yielded far reaching civilian applications with enormous economic and social significance: interchangeable parts in rifle manufacturing that give birth to the socalled American "system of manufacturing" (and invented in Army armories rather than in Eli Whitney's "lab"), military aircraft and propulsion systems (jet engines in particular), nuclear power (reactors), computers and semiconductors, the internet (in case you did not know, it all started with military R&D money), and finally the space industries (satellites).
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
Download Instructions:
https://www.centfile.com/bxvcu97b10g8
Mirror:
https://www.restfilee.com/3voykwz6sx3b