Economic Aspects of Genocides, Other Mass Atrocities, and Their Preventions
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-937829-6 (ISBN)
Chapters include numerous case studies (e.g., California's Yana people, Australia's Aborigines peoples, Stalin's killing of Ukrainians, Belarus, the Holocaust, Rwanda, DR Congo, Indonesia, Pakistan, Colombia, Mexico's drug wars, and the targeting of suspects during the Vietnam war), probing literature reviews, and completely novel work based on extraordinary country-specific datasets. Also included are chapters on the demographic, gendered, and economic class nature of genocide. Replete with research- and policy-relevant findings, new insights are derived from behavioral economics, law and economics, political economy, macroeconomic modeling, microeconomics, development economics, industrial organization, identity economics, and other fields. Analytical approaches include constrained optimization theory, game theory, and sophisticated statistical work in data-mining, econometrics, and forecasting.
A foremost finding of the book concerns atrocity architects' purposeful, strategic use of violence, often manipulating nonrational proclivities among ordinary people to sway their participation in mass murder. Relatively understudied in the literature, the book also analyzes the options of victims before, during, and after mass violence. Further, the book shows how well-intended prevention efforts can backfire and increase violence, how wrong post-genocide design can entrench vested interests to reinforce exclusion of vulnerable peoples, and how businesses can become complicit in genocide. In addition to the necessity of healthy opportunities in employment, education, and key sectors in prevention work, the book shows why new genocide prevention laws and institutions must be based on reformulated incentives that consider insights from law and economics, behavioral economics, and collective action economics.
Dr. Charles H. Anderton is Professor of Economics and the W. Arthur Garrity Sr. Professor in Human Nature, Ethics and Society at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, where he has taught since 1986. His course offerings include the economics of war and peace and genocide and mass killing: perspectives from the social sciences. His research on war and peace has been published in a variety of journals and edited volumes in economics, international relations, and related fields. Dr. Jurgen Brauer is Professor of Economics, Hull College of Business, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, GA, and Visiting Professor of Economics, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. Specializing in defense and peace economics, he is co-founder and co-editor of The Economics of Peace and Security Journal.
PART I - ECONOMICS AND MASS ATROCITIES: OVERVIEW
Chapter 1: On the Economics of Genocides, Other Mass Atrocities, and Their Prevention
Charles H. Anderton and Jurgen Brauer
Chapter 2: "A Crime Without A Name": Defining Genocide and Mass Atrocity
James E. Waller
Chapter 3: Datasets and Trends of Genocides, Mass Killings, and Other Civilian Atrocities
Charles H. Anderton
Chapter 4: The Demography of Genocide
Tadeusz Kugler
Chapter 5: The Macroeconomic Toll of Genocide and the Sources of Economic Development
Dimitrios Soudis, Robert Inklaar, and Robbert Maseland
PART II: ECONOMICS AND MASS ATROCITIES: THEORETICAL APPROACHES AND REVIEWS OF EMPIRICAL LITERATURE
Chapter 6: Genocide and Mass Killing Risk and Prevention: Perspectives from Constrained Optimization Models
Charles H. Anderton and Jurgen Brauer
Chapter 7: Incentives and Constraints for Mass Killings: A Game-Theoretic Approach
Joan Esteban, Massimo Morelli, and Dominic Rohner
Chapter 8: Genocide: From Social Structure to Political Conduct
Néstor Duch-Brown and Antonio Fonfría
Chapter 9: The Microeconomic Causes and Consequences of Genocides and Mass Atrocities
Patricia Justino
Chapter 10: Development and the Risk of Mass Atrocities: An Assessment of the Empirical Literature
Anke Hoeffler
Chapter 11: Who Stays and Who Leaves During Mass Atrocities?
Ana María Ibáñez and Andrés Moya
Chapter 12: Media Persuasion, Ethnic Hatred, and Mass Violence: A Brief Overview of Recent Advances
Maria Petrova and David Yanagizawa-Drott
PART III - ECONOMICS AND MASS ATROCITIES: CASE STUDIES I
Chapter 13: "For Being Aboriginal" - Economic Perspectives on Pre-Holocaust Genocides
Jurgen Brauer and Raul Caruso
Chapter 14: Identity and Incentives: An Economic Interpretation of the Holocaust
Raul Caruso
Chapter 15: The Economics of Genocide in Rwanda
Willa Friedman
Chapter 16: Peace and the Killing: Compatible Logics in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Zoë Marriage
Chapter 17: Gender and the Genocidal Economy
Elisa von Joeden-Forgey
PART IV - ECONOMICS AND MASS ATROCITIES: CASE STUDIES II
Chapter 18: On the Logistics of Violence: Evidence from Stalin's Great Terror, Nazi-Occupied Belarus, and Modern African Civil Wars
Yuri M. Zhukov
Chapter 19: Strategic Atrocities: Civilians under Crossfire - Theory and Evidence from Colombia
Juan F. Vargas
Chapter 20: From Pax Narcótica to Guerra Pública: Explaining Civilian Violence in Mexico's Illicit Drug Wars
Neil T.N. Ferguson, Maren M. Michaelsen, and Topher L. McDougal
Chapter 21: Long-Term Economic Development in the Presence of an Episode of Mass Killing: The Case of Indonesia, 1965-1966
S. Mansoob Murshed and Mohammad Zulfan Tadjoeddin
Chapter 22: Economic Foundations of Religious Killings and Genocide with Special Reference to Pakistan, 1978-2012
Partha Gangopadhyay
Chapter 23: Understanding Civil War Violence through Military Intelligence: Mining Suspects' Records from the Vietnam War
Rex W. Douglass
PART V - ECONOMICS AND MASS ATROCITIES: TOWARD PREDICTION AND PREVENTION
Chapter 24: Economic Risk Factors and Predictive Modeling of Genocide and Mass Killing
Charles R. Butcher and Benjamin E. Goldsmith
Chapter 25: Business in Genocide: Understanding and Avoiding Complicity
Nora M. Stel and Wim Naudé
Chapter 26: Valuing Lives You Might Save: Understanding Psychic Numbing in the Face of Genocide
Paul Slovic, Daniel Västfjäll, Robin Gregory, and Kimberly G. Olson
Chapter 27: Genocides and Other Mass Atrocities: A Law and Economics Approach
Jurgen Brauer, Charles H. Anderton, and David Schap
Chapter 28: Local and National Democracy in Political Reconstruction
Roger B. Myerson
| Erscheinungsdatum | 24.05.2016 |
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| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 157 x 239 mm |
| Gewicht | 1157 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik | |
| Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Finanzwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-937829-0 / 0199378290 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-937829-6 / 9780199378296 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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