WARFARE AND WELFARE? Understanding 19th and 20th Century Central Government Spending

Jari Eloranta

No 269593, Economic Research Papers from University of Warwick - Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper evaluates theories aiming to explain the size and growth of government spending, develops a framework inclusive of the so-called guns vs. butter tradeoff effect, and offers insights especially for the period 1870-1938. There were differences between the excessive and responsive government explanations, and between the long-run and short-run explanations, as well as cross-section and time series approaches. Here central government spending, conditioned by the regime characteristics, is proposed to be analyzed on the basis of the demand characteristics of military spending and social spending, their interaction, public debt constraints, as well as institutional constraints and other environmental variables.

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Health Economics and Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.269593

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