On the relationship between defense and non-defense spending in the U.S. during the world wars

Economics Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 415-421

  Beetsma, Roel M W J ^a   Cukierman, Alex ^b   Giuliodori, Massimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Correlation; Defense expenditures; Non defense expenditures; Taxation; World Wars

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248595517     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2006.11.017     Document Type: Article

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