Talk:Permanent war economy
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
This article is within the scope of the WikiProject Philosophy, which collaborates on articles related to philosophy. To participate, you can edit this article or visit the project page for more details. | ||||||||||||
| ??? | This article has not yet received a rating on the quality scale. | ||||||||||||
| ??? | This article has not yet received an importance rating on the importance scale. | ||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||
 |
An entry from Permanent war economy appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 7 February 2006. |
 |
There are several gramatical errors here e.g. 'an own...' I wonder who thought this deserved to be "Did you know?" and why?
[edit] Those numbers can't be right.
The numbers about percent of GDP spent by the United States for military just don't sound right. How could it have fallen from 16% to 2%?! There were cuts in the 90s but not like that. I don't have numbers of my own so I'll just leave it alone. Otherwise very interesting article.
Glen
The numbers are from a graph of Harman (2003). According to this there was a peak in military spending as a share of GDP at about 16% in the early 50s, another one at 10% in the late 60s (Vietnam war) and finally one of about 5% in the early 80s (Reagan). Then this number dropped to below 2% 1997, the end-year of the graph. In real US-dollars (1992-US-dollars) spending used to be with ups and downs at around 260 bn. US-dollars per year. Alex1011 10:43, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
The Economist, February 11th, 2006: "Total discretionary defence spending": from 3 % GDP 2001 to 4 % 2005. (300 bn. $ to 500 bn. $) Alex1011 14:37, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
- There is much more money now. Meaning that 15% then would only be a quarter of 2% now.
-G
Would it be more accurate and/or additionally informative to have defense spending as percentage of discretionary spending in the budget...I think it would give another perspective since the GDP measure appears to be misleading. Junior 03:24, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Footnotes
I don't want to mark this as unreferenced... but not marking specific areas of books is problematic as it does not allow us to verify this article easily. gren グレン 09:57, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
