Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/157846 
Year of Publication: 
1989
Series/Report no.: 
Working Papers, Department of Economics, McGill University No. 8/89
Publisher: 
The Bichler and Nitzan Archives, Toronto
Abstract: 
The present essay is the second in a series of four papers in which examine the political economy of armaments in recent decades. In this paper we focus on the ‘armament core’ of large military producers which recently emerged as a powerful bloc within the big economy of the United States. The rise of this core was heightened by a gradual shift of large civilian companies toward the armament business. We argue that the decline of large U.S.-based corporations in civilian world markets since the late 1960s was both a stimulus to and a partial consequence of the increasing involvement with better investment opportunities in government-related activity, especially military production. The increasing significance of international developments inhibits the earlier effectiveness of the U.S. government in assisting corporations based in the United States with its own military spending.
Subjects: 
armament
civilian business
military bias
military contractors
profit
subsidies
United States
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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