POTENTIAL FOR EXPANSION OF NATIONAL SECURITY PROGRAMS - A STUDY OF ECONOMIC FEASIBILITY

Abstract

This study was designed to investigate the total amount of resources that the United States could devote to national security programs, assuming continuing peacetime, cold-war conditions during the decade of the sixties. Specifically, it considers the feasibility of achieving certain levels of expansion of total national security expenditures, within the short leadtimes of a three-year buildup, as well as the longer-run rates of continued growth of these expenditures that could be sustained thereafter. Feasibility is evaluated in terms of resource availabilities and tax requirements, monetary policy, inflation, need for direct controls, the international balance of payments, and associated levels of other government activities and of private in vestment and consumption. No attempt is made here to evaluate the necessity for any given defense programs or any particular level of security expenditures. Efficiency in existing and new programs, and economies in government operations are considered to be outside the scope of this inquiry.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1960
Accession Number
AD0408725

Entities

People

  • Francis P. Hoeber

Organizations

  • SRI International

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

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  • Accounting
  • Business Administration
  • Commerce
  • Economic Development
  • Economic Policy
  • Economic Warfare
  • Economics
  • Employment
  • International Trade
  • Investments
  • Local Governments
  • Monetary Policy
  • Money
  • National Security
  • Second World War
  • United States
  • Western Europe

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