Military Conscription : An Economic Analysis of the Labour Component in the Armed Forces /
The book describes the social costs of conscription in the Netherlands using methods from Public Finance and Law and Economics. This analysis shows that both the tax for the population, or the subsidy for the armed forces, and the lack of scarcity considering human resources caused by the draft, bri...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Heidelberg :
Physica-Verlag HD : Imprint: Physica,
1999.
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| Series: | Contributions to economics.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Economics and Conscription
- The Public Good "Defense"
- The History and Existence of Conscription in the Netherlands
- The Conscription Tax
- Conscription and the Allocation of Production Factors
- The Demand for and the Supply of Volunteers
- The Interaction Between Society and the Armed Forces
- The Transformation of a Conscription Force into an All-Volunteer Force
- Social Conscription
- Summary.