 The Major Western Defence IndustriesPeter Southwood Chapter 5 in Disarming Military Industries, 1991, pp 56-78 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract The defence industries1 are the focus of conversion efforts. Yet until comparatively recently very little by way of in-depth research had been done into the economic parameters of those industries. A great deal of theorising about conversion had been undertaken on the basis of a very limited data base. The publication of The Structure of the Defense Industry: An International Survey, edited by Nicole Ball and Milton Leitenberg (1983), represented therefore an important step forward in that it provided a comparative assessment of the economic parameters of the defence industries of several countries, including all the major Western industrialised states except the United Kingdom. (The latter was confined to a statistical appendix.)2 As the authors of this study themselves claimed: Any realistic assessment of the effects of reductions in defence industries — that is, the conversion of military industries to civilian uses — must take as its starting point the role played by these industries in present-day national economies.3 Keywords: Defence Industry; Defence Spending; Weapon Programme; Defence Work; Defence Dependency (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-11527-3_5 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-11527-3_5 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan |
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