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Guns and butter : the economic causes and consequences of conflict / edited by Gregory D. Hess.

Title
Guns and butter : the economic causes and consequences of conflict / edited by Gregory D. Hess.
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2009.

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Additional Authors
  • CESifo.
  • Hess, Gregory D.
Description
vi, 323 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
CESifo seminar series
Uniform Title
CESifo seminar series.
Subject
War > Economic aspects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction / Gregory D. Hess -- I. Theories of Wars between Nations and Insecurity -- 1. Paths to Peace and Prosperity / Bruce Bueno de Mesquita -- 2. The Political Economy of Warfare / Edward L. Glaeser -- 3. Globalization and Insecurity: Reviewing Some Basic Issues / Michelle R. Garfinkel, Stergios Skaperdas and Constantinos Syropoulos -- 4. Investing in Regimes with Stationary or Roving Bandits / Kai A. Konrad -- II. Terrorism -- 5. A Gravity Model of Globalization, Democracy, and Transnational Terrorism / S. Brock Blomberg and B. Peter Rosendorff -- 6. The Factionalization of Terror Groups / Ethan Bueno de Mesquita -- 7. Urban Structure in a Climate of Terror / Stephen Sheppard -- III. The Costs of Warfare -- 8. War in Iraq versus Containment / Steven J. Davis, Kevin M. Murphy and Robert H. Topel -- 9. Using Household Data to Study the Economic Consequences of Violent Conflict: The Case of Rwanda / Marijke Verpoorten.
ISBN
  • 9780262012812 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0262012812 (hbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2008041413
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries