The Economics of Conflict and Peace

by Brauer,Jurgen

• ISBN13: 9781859722374
• ISBN10: 1859722377
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-02-28
• Publisher: Avebury

Summary

This work addresses new directions in research on the economic theory of conflict, the cost of war, and the benefits of peace. A collection of 17 papers drawing on contributors from all continents, the volume is divided into four sections. The first discusses novel ways to think about the economics of conflict and peace from theory perspectives. These include discussions of conflict from the perspectives of standard neoclassical analysis and economic geography. An especially interesting paper in this section addresses conflict in the context of the emerging theory of international public finance. A second section deals with military expenditures, economic/human development and economic growth in the US and developing nations of Asia and Africa. The volume enters new territory in sections three and four. Section three contains a set of papers on the economic cost of war and war's aftermath, significantly expanding economists' rather modest efforts to date. Section four is concerned with how the concepts of economics might be operationalized and institutionalized to foster security.

Table of Contents

Figures and Tables	vii
Introduction	1	(4)
PART I Theory-approaches and approaches to theory	5	(100)
1 Economics and peace-theory on the eve of World War I	7	(24)
Ralph Rotte
2 More with less: Economics of non-offensive defense, with special reference to Argentina	31	(23)
Bjorn Moller
Thomas Scheetz
3 The economics of conflict, production, and exchange	54	(29)
Charles H. Anderton
Roxane A. Anderton
4 The distribution of military expenditures in the United States: Spatial, sectoral, technological, and occupational	83	(22)
Barney Warf
John Grimes
PART II The opportunity costs of military expenditures: Human development, and economic development and growth	105	(122)
5 Opportunity costs of military expenditures: Evidence from the United States	109	(16)
David Gold
6 Military expenditures and fiscal constraints in Pakistan	125	(25)
Robert E. Looney
7 Peace in Guatemala? The story of San Lucas Toliman	150	(29)
John Abell
8 From apartheid to democracy: The economic dimensions of demilitarizing South African society	179	(22)
Andre Roux
9 Do military expenditures create net employment? The case of US military-nuclear production sites	201	(26)
Jurgen Brauer
PART III The economic cost of war and its aftermath	227	(76)
The Sudan: The cost of the second civil war (1983-1993)	229	(19)
Nadir A.L. Mohammed
That "splendid little war": The costs of Spanish-American war	248	(21)
William G. Gissy
12 Estimates of the economic cost of armed conflict: The Iran-Iraq war and Sri Lankan civil war	269	(23)
Geoff Harris
13 Research note: Costing the direct health burden of political violence in developing countries	292	(11)
Lilani Kumaranayake
Anthony Zwi
Antonio Ugalde
PART IV Securing security	303	(94)
14 War and peace from a perspective of international public economics	307	(30)
Ruben P. Mendez
15 A world treasury	337	(18)
Dietrich Fischer
16 Policies for peace: An analysis of the causes of military expenditures and the means to disarmament	355	(21)
John R. Garrett
17 Creating global security: Japan as a potential catalyst	376	(21)
Anthony DiFilippo
Contributors	397