Economic Aspects of Military Research and Development
ResearchPublished 1955
ResearchPublished 1955
Treating development of new military items as an economic service analogous to services rendered by commodities traded on private markets, RAND suggests areas for empirical inquiry when recommending changes to the allocation of development resources.
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