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9780521875578

Principles of Conflict Economics: A Primer for Social Scientists

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    9780521875578

  • ISBN10:

    0521875579

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-03-23
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

Conflict economics contributes to an understanding of violent conflict in two important ways. First, it applies economic analysis to diverse conflict activities such as war, arms races, and terrorism, showing how they can be understood as purposeful choices responsive to underlying incentives. Second, it treats appropriation as a fundamental economic activity, joining production and exchange as a means of wealth acquisition. Drawing on a half-century of scholarship, this book presents a primer on the key themes and principles of conflict economics. Although much work in the field is abstract, the book is made accessible to a broad audience of scholars, students, and policymakers by relying on historical data, relatively simple graphs, and intuitive narratives. In exploring the interdependence of economics and conflict, the book presents current perspectives of conflict economics in novel ways and offers new insights into economic aspects of violence.

Table of Contents

Introduction: definition and scope of conflict economics
Production possibilities and the guns versus butter tradeoff
Rational choice and equilibrium
Fundamentals of game theory
A Bargaining model of conflict
Conflict between states
Civil war and genocide
Terrorism
Geography and technology of conflict
Arms rivalry, proliferation, and arms control
Military alliances
Conflict success functions and the theory of appropriation possibilities
Statistical methods
A more formal bargaining model of conflict
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