List of figures, List of tables, List of contributors, 1 Defense, welfare, and growth: introduction, 2 Defense spending and economic performance: a disaggregated analysis, 3 Political-economic tradeoffs and British relative decline, 4 Guns, butter, and growth: the case of Norway, 5 Eating your cake and having it too: the Japanese case, 6 Models of military expenditure, 7 Economic growth, investment, and military spending in India, 1950–88, 8 Muddling through security, growth, and welfare: the political economy of defense spending in South Korea, 9 Military burden, economic growth, and income inequality: the Taiwan exception, 10 The dual economy and Arab-Israeli use of force: a transnational system?, 11 The impact of military expenditures on human-capital development in the Arab Gulf states, 12 Military participation, economic growth, and income inequality: a cross-national study, 13 Do we yet know who pays for defense? Conclusions and synthesis, Index