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Economic conversion

Index Economic conversion

Economic conversion, defence conversion, or arms conversion, is a technical, economic and political process for moving from military to civilian markets. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 45 relations: Blueprint, Budget, Business, Catherine Hill, Civilian, Cold War, Columbia University, Deficit spending, Departmentalization, Economic diversity, Economics of defense, Economy, Empirical evidence, Employment, Engineer, Europe, Geography, Human resources, Infrastructure, Innovation, Institute for Policy Studies, Israel, Just transition, Konversiya, Lloyd J. Dumas, Management, Marcus Raskin, Mikhail Gorbachev, Military, Politics, Professor, Real estate, Reindustrialization, Reuse, September 11 attacks, Seymour Melman, South Africa, Technology, Treaty, United States, Vietnam War, War on terror, Washington, D.C., Workforce, World War II.

  2. Economic history
  3. Military economics

Blueprint

A blueprint is a reproduction of a technical drawing or engineering drawing using a contact print process on light-sensitive sheets introduced by Sir John Herschel in 1842.

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Budget

A budget is a calculation plan, usually but not always financial, for a defined period, often one year or a month.

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Business

Business is the practice of making one's living or making money by producing or buying and selling products (such as goods and services).

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Catherine Hill

Catherine Hill (28 August 1893 – 12 August 1983) was a maid and beneficiary who became a well-known eccentric character on the streets and at the railway station of Hamilton in New Zealand.

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Civilian

A civilian is a person who is not a member of an armed force nor a person engaged in hostilities.

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Cold War

The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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Columbia University

Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private Ivy League research university in New York City.

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Deficit spending

Within the budgetary process, deficit spending is the amount by which spending exceeds revenue over a particular period of time, also called simply deficit, or budget deficit, the opposite of budget surplus.

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Departmentalization

Departmentalization (or departmentalisation) refers to the process of grouping activities into departments.

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Economic diversity

Economic diversity or economic diversification refers to variations in the economic status or the use of a broad range of economic activities in a region or country.

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Economics of defense

The economics of defense or defense economics is a subfield of economics, an application of the economic theory to the issues of military defense. Economic conversion and economics of defense are military economics.

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Economy

An economy is an area of the production, distribution and trade, as well as consumption of goods and services.

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Empirical evidence

Empirical evidence for a proposition is evidence, i.e. what supports or counters this proposition, that is constituted by or accessible to sense experience or experimental procedure.

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Employment

Employment is a relationship between two parties regulating the provision of paid labour services.

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Engineer

Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the limitations imposed by practicality, regulation, safety and cost.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Geography

Geography (from Ancient Greek γεωγραφία; combining 'Earth' and 'write') is the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth.

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Human resources

Human resources (HR) is the set of people who make up the workforce of an organization, business sector, industry, or economy.

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Infrastructure

Infrastructure is the set of facilities and systems that serve a country, city, or other area, and encompasses the services and facilities necessary for its economy, households and firms to function.

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Innovation

Innovation is the practical implementation of ideas that result in the introduction of new goods or services or improvement in offering goods or services.

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Institute for Policy Studies

The Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) is an American progressive think tank started in 1963 and based in Washington, D.C. It was directed by John Cavanagh from 1998 to 2021.

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Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.

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Just transition

Just transition is a framework developed by the trade union movement to encompass a range of social interventions needed to secure workers' rights and livelihoods when economies are shifting to sustainable production, primarily combating climate change and protecting biodiversity.

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Konversiya

Konversiya (Cyrillic: Конверсия), Russian for "conversion" and used here in the sense of economic conversion was an economic policy initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev in the final years of the Soviet UnionCooper 1995, p.130 and which continued into the early years of post-Soviet Russia.

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Lloyd J. Dumas

Lloyd Jeff Dumas (born May 18, 1945) is a Professor of Political Economy, Economics, and Public Policy in the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas.

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Management

Management (or managing) is the administration of organizations, whether they are a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government body through business administration, nonprofit management, or the political science sub-field of public administration respectively.

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Marcus Raskin

Marcus Goodman Raskin (April 30, 1934 – December 24, 2017) was an American progressive social critic, political activist, author, and philosopher.

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Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991.

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Military

A military, also known collectively as an armed forces, are a heavily armed, highly organized force primarily intended for warfare.

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Politics

Politics is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status.

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Professor

Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries.

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Real estate

Real estate is property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as growing crops (e.g. timber), minerals or water, and wild animals; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this (also) an item of real property, (more generally) buildings or housing in general.

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Reindustrialization

Reindustrialization is the economic, social, and political process of organizing national resources for the purpose of re-establishing industries.

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Reuse

Reuse is the action or practice of using an item, whether for its original purpose (conventional reuse) or to fulfill a different function (creative reuse or repurposing).

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September 11 attacks

The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001.

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Seymour Melman

Seymour Melman (December 30, 1917 – December 16, 2004) was an American professor emeritus of industrial engineering and operations research at Columbia University's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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Technology

Technology is the application of conceptual knowledge to achieve practical goals, especially in a reproducible way.

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Treaty

A treaty is a formal, legally binding written agreement concluded by sovereign states in international law.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

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War on terror

The war on terror, officially the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), is a global counterterrorist military campaign initiated by the United States following the September 11 attacks and is the most recent global conflict spanning multiple wars.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.

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Workforce

In macroeconomics, the labor force is the sum of those either working (i.e., the employed) or looking for work (i.e., the unemployed): \text.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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See also

Economic history

Military economics

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_conversion

Also known as Arms conversion.