Chapter 34 Success and Failure in Defense Conversion in the 'Long Decade of Disarmament'

Handbook of Defense Economics

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 1177-1210

  Brzoska, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

allocative efficiency; cost benefit analysis; defense conversion; industrial change; labor force and employment; land use

Indexed keywords

EID: 66049146046     PISSN: 15740013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-0013(06)02034-5     Document Type: Review

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