This Element introduces defence economics. It presents the recent history of the subject and its range of coverage. Traditional topics covered include models of arms races, alliances, procurement and contracting, personnel polices, industrial policies and disarmament. Newer areas covered include terrorism and the economics of war and conflict.
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- 2020
- 2018
I Want to Be A Machine
- 36 pages
- 2 hours of reading
Fascinating compare-and-contrast examination of Eduardo Paolozzi and Andy Warhol and their fascination with the machine in their art. A great introduction to the work of both artists.
- 2018
Emil Nolde
- 136 pages
- 5 hours of reading
Covers the complete career of one of the greatest colourists of the twentieth century, from atmospheric paintings of immense landscapes to intensely colour works dating from the Third Reich. Published to accompany a touring exhibition.
- 2017
An authoritative, non-technical introduction to the economics of the arms industry by one of the world's leading defence economists.
- 2013
From Death to Death and Other Small Tales
- 152 pages
- 6 hours of reading
Brings together works from one of the most important private collections of modern and contemporary art, the D.Daskalopoulos Collection with key pieces from the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, providing a new context for both collections.
- 2012
John Bellany
- 96 pages
- 4 hours of reading
John Bellany (born 1942) helped change the course of painting in Scotland. His intensely felt paintings of fisherfolk and their precarious life at sea were a direct challenge to the much diluted Scottish colourist tradition and its landscapes and still lifes.