Military expenditures in developing countries: a comment on Deger and Sen
Lidström, Per ; Lyttkens, Carl Hampus LU
and Vedovato, Claudio
(1988)
In Journal of Development Economics
28(1).
p.105-110
- Abstract
- This note contains a criticism of an article by Deger and Sen (1983) who discuss the causes of military expenditure in less developed countries. It is argued that their utility function is unsuitably specified and that the conclusions drawn may be called into question. Moreover, it is doubtful whether the concept of a benevolent government that maximizes a single utility function is conducive to an understanding of actual decision problems in the majority of LDCs.
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- author
- Lidström, Per
; Lyttkens, Carl Hampus
LU
and Vedovato, Claudio
- organization
- publishing date
- 1988
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- in
- Journal of Development Economics
- volume
- 28
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 105 - 110
- publisher
- Elsevier
- external identifiers
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- scopus:0023804227
- ISSN
- 0304-3878
- DOI
- 10.1016/0304-3878(88)90016-8
- language
- English
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