Principles of Conflict Economics: The Political Economy of War, Terrorism, Genocide, and Peace [Hardcover]

Provides comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of the key themes and principles of conflict economics.This book provides comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of the key themes and principles of conflict economics, with new scholarship on well-established areas such as war, terrorism and alliances and under-researched areas including genocides, individual and family aspects of war, and conflict prevention.This book provides comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of the key themes and principles of conflict economics, with new scholarship on well-established areas such as war, terrorism and alliances and under-researched areas including genocides, individual and family aspects of war, and conflict prevention.Conflict economics contributes to an understanding of violent conflict and peace in two important ways. First, it applies economic concepts and models to help one understand diverse conflict activities such as war, terrorism, genocide, and peace. Second, it treats coercive appropriation as a fundamental economic activity, joining production and exchange as a means of wealth acquisition. In the second edition of their book Principles of Conflict Economics, Anderton and Carter provide comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of the key themes and principles of conflict economics. Along with new scholarship on well-established areas such as war, terrorism and alliances and under-researched areas including genocides, individual and family aspects of war, and conflict prevention, they apply new economic tools to the study of war and peace such as behavioral economics and economics of identity and offer deeper research and policy insights into how to reconstitute societies after large-scale violence.Part I. Introduction: 1. Nature, scope, and interdependencies of conflict and economics; Part II. Key Concepts and Models for the Economic Analysis of Conflict and Peace: 2. Production possibilities and economic growth; 3. Demand and supply; 4. Rational choice theory; 5. Game theory; 6. BelÓ)