• DOI:10.1080/00346760801932718
Corpus ID: 153747265

Social vs. Military Spending: How the Escalating Pentagon Budget Crowds out Public Infrastructure and Aggravates Natural Disasters—the Case of Hurricane Katrina

@article{Hosseinzadeh2009SocialVM,
  title={Social vs. Military Spending: How the Escalating Pentagon Budget Crowds out Public Infrastructure and Aggravates Natural Disasters—the Case of Hurricane Katrina},
  author={Ismael Hossein-zadeh},
  journal={Review of Social Economy},
  year={2009},
  volume={67},
  pages={149 - 173}
}

Ismael Hossein-zadeh

Published 2009

Economics

Review of Social Economy

Abstract This paper puts forth (and documents) an argument that the escalating US military spending at the expense of non-military public spending is steadily undermining the critical national objective of public-capital formation (both physical and human) and that, if not stopped, the resulting trend will stint long term productivitiy and economic growth, as it erodes both physical and soft/social infrastructure. An equally high opportunity cost of the colossal Pentagon budget in terms of… CONTINUE READING

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