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Social scientists and policy makers have long been interested in the causes and consequences of peace and conflict. This Handbook brings together contributions from leading scholars who take an economic perspective to study the topic. It includes thirty-three chapters and is divided into five parts: Correlates of Peace and Conflict; Consequences and Costs of Conflict; On the Mechanics of Conflict; Conflict and Peace in Economic Context; and Pathways to Peace. Taken together, they demonstrate not only how the tools of economics can be fruitfully used to advance our understanding of conflict, but how explicitly incorporating conflict into economic analysis can add substantively to our understanding of observed economic phenomena. Some chapters are largely empirical, identifying correlates of war and peace and quantifying many of the costs of conflict. Others are more theoretical, exploring a variety of mechanisms that lead to war or are more conducive to peace.

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Author:   Michelle R. Garfinkel (Professor of Economics, Professor of Economics, University of California, Irvine) ,  Stergios Skaperdas (Professor of Economics, Professor of Economics, University of California, Irvine)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 25.10cm , Height: 5.10cm , Length: 18.50cm
Weight:   1.721kg
ISBN:  

9780195392777

ISBN 10:   0195392779
Pages:   888
Publication Date:   24 May 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

I Introduction 1. Economic perspectives on peace and conflict. Michelle R. Garfinkel and Stergios Skaperdas II Correlates of peace and conflict 2. Informational aspects of conflict. Karl Wärneryd 3. Commitment problems and shifting power as a cause of conflict. Robert Powell 4. Bargaining and conflict with incomplete information. Santiago Sanchez-Pages 5. The Hobbesian trap. Sandeep Baliga and Tomas Sjöström 6. Religion, conflict and cooperation. Michael T. McBride and Gary Richardson 7. Comparing polarization measures. Joan Esteban and Debraj Ray 8. Inequality, polarization and conflict. Jose G. Montalvo and Marta Reynal-Querol 9. On the causes of civil war. Anke Hoeffler 10. Reflections on Africa's wars. Jean-Paul Azam III Consequences and costs of conflict 11. Methods for measuring aggregate costs of conflict. Javier Gardeazabal 12. How many bucks in a bang: On the estimation of the economic costs of conflict. Tilman Brück, Olaf J. de Groot and Carlos Bozzoli 13. Estimating the costs of war: Methodological issues, with applications to Iraq and Afghanistan. Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilmes 14. Estimating the human costs of war: A sample survey approach. Michael Spagat 15. Mental health in the aftermath of conflict. Quy-Toan Do and Lakshmi Iyer 16. Measuring the economic costs of terrorism. Walter Enders and Eric Olson 17. Assessing the e ects of military expenditure on growth. Giorgio d'Agostino, J. Paul Dunne, and Luca Pieroni 18. The economic welfare cost of conflict: An empirical assessment. S. Brock Blomberg and Gregory D. Hess IV On the mechanics of conflict 19. Technologies of conflict. Hao Jia and Stergios Skaperdas 20. Endogenous formation of alliances in contests. Francis Bloch 21. Conflict with multiple battlefields. Dan Kovenock and Brian Roberson 22. Laboratory experiments on conflict. Klaus Abbink V Conflict and peace in economic context 23. War, trade, and natural resources: A historical perspective. Ronald Findlay and Kevin O'Rourke 24. Trade in the shadow of power. Michelle R. Garfinkel, Stergios Skaperdas, and Constantinos Syropoulos 25. Conflict and policy in general equilibrium: Insights from a standard trade model. Ernesto Dal Bó and Pedro Dal Bó 26. The use of coercion in society: insecure property rights, conflict and economic backwardness. Francisco M. Gonzalez 27. War and poverty. Patricia Justino 28. Aggressive elites and vulnerable entrepreneurs: Trust and cooperation in the shadow of conflict. Halvor Mehlum and Karl Moene VI Pathways to peace 29. Globalization and international conflict: Can FDI increase cooperation among nations? Solomon W. Polachek, Carlos Seiglie, and Jun Xiang 30. National borders, conflict and peace. Enrico Spolaore 31. Political institutions and war initiation: The democratic peace hypothesis revisited. Michelle R. Garfinkel 32. Why follow the leader? Collective action, credible commitment and conflict. Philip Keefer 33. Conflict -inhibiting norms. Peter T. Leeson and Christopher J. Coyne

Reviews

Garfinkel and Skaperdas have provided a major service to the community of researchers working on the economics and analytics of conflict. The breadth of coverage of the volume is unparalleled and quality of the contributions is remarkably high. * James D. Fearon, Stanford University *

Garfinkel and Skaperdas have provided a major service to the community of researchers working on the economics and analytics of conflict. The breadth of coverage of the volume is unparalleled and quality of the contributions is remarkably high. --James D. Fearon, Stanford University This handbook is at once topical and timeless. It gathers an all-star cast of scholars, all working at the forefront of different aspects of political economy. A tour de force presentation. --Michael C. Munger, Duke University This handbook is a masterpiece. It should be mandatory reading for all students of conflict, and an essential source of reference for experienced researchers in this field. --Kai A. Konrad, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance

<br> Garfinkel and Skaperdas have provided a major service to the community of researchers working on the economics and analytics of conflict. The breadth of coverage of the volume is unparalleled and quality of the contributions is remarkably high. --James D. Fearon, Stanford University<p><br> This handbook is at once topical and timeless. It gathers an all-star cast of scholars, all working at the forefront of different aspects of political economy. A tour de force presentation. --Michael C. Munger, Duke University<p><br> This handbook is a masterpiece. It should be mandatory reading for all students of conflict, and an essential source of reference for experienced researchers in this field. --Kai A. Konrad, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance<p><br>

Author Information

Michelle R. Garfinkel is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on conflict in numerous economic settings and has been published in such journals as the American Economic Review. Stergios Skaperdas is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Irvine. His research has been published in a variety of journals, including the American Economic Review and the American Political Science Review.

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