Military Expenditure, the Driving Force of Japanese Economic Growth ?

Les dépenses militaires, moteur de la croissance économique japonaise ?

Claude Diebolt () and Magali Jaoul-Grammare
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Claude Diebolt: BETA - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - UNISTRA - Université de Strasbourg - UL - Université de Lorraine - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, HU Berlin - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin = Humboldt University of Berlin = Université Humboldt de Berlin, LAMETA - Laboratoire Montpelliérain d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée - UM1 - Université Montpellier 1 - UPVM - Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - Montpellier SupAgro - Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques - UM - Université de Montpellier - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Montpellier SupAgro - Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier

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Abstract: This paper is a study of the nature and importance of possible links between the structural dynamics of military expenditure and that of the socio-economic system in Japan before World War 2. A triple database containing original information drawn from the work of Ohkawa et al., of Taeuber and of Diebolt was used to determine the pattern of the relation of causality, if such exists, between the two systems. Although the results show that all the expenditure had an impact on Japanese economic growth, military expenditure played a more central role at both the economic and social levels and, like expenditure on education, can be considered as one of the driving forces of the economic growth of the country.

Keywords: Japan; Military expenditure; Socio-economic system; World War II; Dépenses militaires; Japon; Système socio-économique; Deuxième Guerre Mondiale (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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Published in Revue Economique, 2004, 55 (3), pp.439-447. ⟨10.3917/reco.553.0439⟩

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DOI: 10.3917/reco.553.0439

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