MILITARIZATION OF THE ECONOMY AND THE PROBLEM OF LIMITED RE-SOURCES OF EXPANDED PRODUCTION IN DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
On the basis of extensive data on the US, the article studies the devastating impact of the militarization of the economy which primarily an extremely exacerbates the problem of limited resources of the modern expanded reproduction. The analysis of the statistical data for military expenditure and capital formation in the United States of the years 1940-2011 allows the author to make some fundamental conclusions about the causes of the global economic crisis at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The author holds the opinion that the main cause of eco-nomic shocks in the 2000-s is in the “military overload” of material resources of the economy, which is seen as a natural manifestation of militarization in the era of general economic crisis affecting all developed countries. Based on the statistics of more than 70 years, the article proves the author‟s conclusion that the long-term impact on the process of militarization of the extended social reproduction ultimately affects the pace of the renewal of fixed capital, which slows down in direct propor-tion to the growth of military spending.