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" Military Conscription : "
by Simon Duindam.
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BL
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749265
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b569223
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by Simon Duindam.
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Military Conscription : : an Economic Analysis of the Labour Component in the Armed Forces\ by Simon Duindam.
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Heidelberg : Physica-Verlag HD : Imprint : Physica, 1999
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Contributions to economics.
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(vii, 203 pages)
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3642500056
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: 9783642500053
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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.
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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, brings armed forces with too many men, military and youngster at huge costs for the population. The book also shows that almost every other institution in the armed forces, like pay-schemes, selection procedures, seize of troups etc., is influenced by conscription, so that the success of a volunteer force can only be established if these institutions are changed as well. The book also includes issues like the democratic aspects of conscription, the organisation of UN-peacekeeping operations and social conscription. The book is a very valuable source for those researchers, military and politicians that face the question: military conscription or a volunteer-force?
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Economics.
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Finance.
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UB345.N2B975 1999
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Simon Duindam
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