The Political Economy of the Origins of the Military-Industrial Complex in the United States
研究了美国在南北战争到第一次世界大战期间，商业、军事和政治利益集团如何在和平时期联合支持军事扩张，形成军工复合体的制度根源。
Despite the attention given by scholars to the military-industrial complex few studies have attempted to pinpoint and explain its origin. In this paper we argue that the coalescing of business, military, and political interest groups in support of a military build-up in the United States during peacetime occurred in the years between the Civil War and World War I. It was during this period that we observe the roots of institutional arrangements between the military and industry for the purpose of large-scale weapons acquisitions.