Subject: Economics of National Security Working Group Meeting Feb 25th
From: Martin Feldstein (msfeldst@nber.org)
Date: Tue Dec 28 2004 - 13:53:46 EST
The NBER Working Group on the Economics of National Security began meeting
in 2004. We will be meeting again on February 25th, with a dinner the
night before.
The subject of National Security is defined broadly, as indicated in
the description below from the NBER Working Group website. To these
topics I would add energy dependence, coalition strategy, and others.
Please let me know if you have a paper that you would like to present or
know of a paper that you think would be of interest. The Bureau will pay
travel costs for authors.
The conference department will write to you separately to ask if you would
like to come to the meeting.
Marty Feldstein
Economics of National Security
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Economics of National Security (ENS), Martin Feldstein, Director
The Working Group on the Economics of National Security will deal with the
wide range of issues that affect national security with a primary focus on
the security of the United States. Topics will include : military strategy
(defense budgets, technical change, manpower, etc), sources of terrorist
risks (causes of terrorism, financing of terrorism, etc), homeland security
policies for dealing with terrorism (nuclear, chemical and biological),
problem areas (North Korea, Iraq, etc). The group will meet at least once
during the academic year and will hope to develop research suitable for a
regular research project and conference.
