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What profits should we be willing to pay defense firms?

April 4, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

One of the long-standing problems has been the fact that the government tends to pay profit as a percentage of cost. If a contractor is […]

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Defense Acquisition as a Cost Disease Sector: What’s the Evidence?

October 29, 2018 Eric Lofgren 0

At any given time, you will have sectors where demand is growing faster than productivity (think of health care and education) and other sectors where […]

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