Erwin — Defense Economics
Military spending is the most direct expression of state power in the economy. Erwin treats it as an endogenous feature of capitalism — military Keynesianism, the permanent arms economy, and the military-industrial complex — across 325 published series.
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324 chartable series across 16 categories — US defense spending, SIPRI cross-country, NATO burden-sharing, arms industry, profit rates. A chart is already drawn when you arrive.
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324 series as CSV and Parquet, downloadable one at a time or as one 15,625,125-byte zip, with the full data dictionary. Sources: SIPRI, NATO, BEA, BLS, FRED, USAspending, DOD, WDI, HSUS.
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Per-source Data Provenance Records — construction, units, limits, and last-updated for every series.
What's here
Erwin spans US federal defense spending (1929–2026Q1), cross-country military expenditure (SIPRI, 174 countries, 1949–2025), NATO burden-sharing (2014–2025), the top-100 arms companies, defense-adjacent manufacturing profit rates, and veterans' benefits. Named after Erwin Rommel and Erwin Smith — commanders who understood that strategy is resource allocation under constraint.
An Arcanum Research project · Anu Framework v12.2. Educational/research dataset — every value traces to a published source; no synthetic or estimated data.