Principles of conflict economics : a primer for social scientists
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Principles of conflict economics : a primer for social scientists
Cambridge University Press, 2009
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-306) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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
- 1. Introduction: definition and scope of conflict economics
- 2. Production possibilities and the guns versus butter tradeoff
- 3. Rational choice and equilibrium
- 4. Fundamentals of game theory
- 5. A bargaining model of conflict
- 6. Conflict between states
- 7. Civil war and genocide
- 8. Terrorism
- 9. Geography and technology of conflict
- 10. Arms rivalry, proliferation, and arms control
- 11. Military alliances
- 12. Conflict success functions and the theory of appropriation possibilities
- Appendix A. Statistical methods
- Appendix B. A more formal bargaining model of conflict.
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