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Is War Necessary for Economic Growth?
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Vernon W. Ruttan

It is difficult to overemphasize the importance of the historical role that military procurement has played in the process of technology development. Knowledge acquired in making weapons was an important source of the industrial revolution. To bore the condenser cylinders for his steam engines, “Watt had to turn to John Wilkinson, a cannon-borer, who had invented the one machine in all En…

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978-0-19-518804-2
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1-232
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