DEFENSE ECONOMICS: NOTES FOR AN INTEGRATED RESEARCH

Abstract

This paper aims to summary the options of a research agenda in defense
economics. The importance of the sector can be seen by the generation of jobs, taxes
and income, as well as the provision of an essential public good, protection against
potential threats to resources and activities developed in the context of society and the
national economy. This paper, therefore, works the possible articulations of research in
the context of a country that overcomes the trauma of years of military intervention in
national politics and recognizes the importance and necessity of the activity, as well as
its potential for reproduction in society. Above all, it is not only possible to articulate a
microeconomic research, studying the sectors as traditional, but also a macroeconomic
research, fundamental for the positioning and fulfillment of the functions of the defense
activities.