Research Catalog

Title

Handbook on the economics of conflict / edited by Derek L. Braddon, Keith Hartley.

Publication

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, ©2011.

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Additional Authors

• Braddon, Derek, 1949-
• Hartley, Keith.

Description

ix, 518 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Summary

The economics of conflict is a relatively new branch of the discipline of economics. Conflict provides opportunities for applying game theory involving strategic behaviour, interactions and interdependence between adversaries. This handbook demonstrates that conflict and its prevention is costly; it considers new dimensions such as ethnic cleansing, destructive power, terrorism, corruption, the impact of new technology, peacekeeping, the role of economists in defence ministries and the use of private contractors in conflict.

Subjects

• Wirtschaftstheorie
• Politischer Konflikt
• Konfliktanalyse
• War > Economic aspects
• Terrorism > Economic aspects > Case studies
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Krieg
• Case studies

Genre/Form

• Aufsatzsammlung.
• Case studies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Derek L. Braddon and Keith Hartley -- The history of economic thought on conflict / Fanny Coulomb -- A bargaining theory perspective on war / Charles H. Anderton and John R. Carter -- Modeling mass killing: for gain or ethnic cleansing? / Attiat F. Ott and Sang Hoo Bae -- The economics of destructive power / Mehrdad Vahabi -- The government budget allocation process and national security: an application to the Israeli-Syrian arms race / Itay Ringel and Asher Tishler -- Characteristics of terrorism / Karen Pittel and Dirk Rübbelke -- Conflict and corruption / John R. Hudson -- Conflict in space / Vasilis Zervos -- The economics of peacekeeping / Vincenzo Bove and Ron Smith -- Peacekeeping, private benefits and common agency / Ugurhan G. Berkok and Binyam Solomon -- The long-term costs of conflict: the case of the Iraq War / Linda J. Bilmes and Joseph E. Stiglitz -- Macroeconomics and violence / Jurgen Brauer and J. Paul Dunne -- The macroeconomic effects of conflict: three case studies / Christos Kollias and Suzanna-Maria Paleologou -- Economics of conflict: Turkey's experience / Sennur Sezgin and Selami Sezgin -- Terrorism: the case of ETA / Carlos P. Barros and Luis A. Gil-Alana -- Helping secure the 'biggest bang for the taxpayer's buck': defence resource management in the United Kingdom / Neil Davies, Tony Turner, Andrew Gibbons, Stuart Davies, David Jones and Nick Bennett -- The economic impact of the conflict in the Balkans: the case of Serbia / Derek L. Braddon, Jonathan Bradley and Paul Dowdall -- The strategic bombing of Germany in the Second World War: an economic perspective / Keith Hartley -- The reprivatization of war / Stefan Markowski and Peter Hall.

ISBN

• 9781848446496
• 1848446497
• 9780857930934
• 0857930931

LCCN

2010934017

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries