Economic aspects of genocides, other mass atrocities, and their prevention / edited by Charles H. Anderton and Jurgen Brauer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anderton, Charles H., editor, author.

Brauer, Jurgen, 1957- editor, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genocide--Economic aspects.

Genocide.

Genocide--Case studies.

Genocide--Prevention.

Atrocities--Economic aspects.

Atrocities.

Atrocities--Prevention.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xvi, 709 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Contents:

Part I: Economics and mass atrocities: overview

On the economics of genocides, other mass atrocities, and their prevention / Charles H. Anderton and Jurgen Brauer

"A crime without a name": defining genocide and mass atrocity / James E. Waller

Datasets and trends of genocides, mass killings, and other civilian atrocities / Charles H. Anderton

The demography of genocide / Tadeusz Kugler

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

Genocide and mass killing risk and prevention: perspectives from constrained optimization models / Charles H. Anderton and Jurgen Brauer

Incentives and constraints for mass killings: a game-theoretic approach / Joan Esteban, Massimo Morelli, and Dominic Rohner

Genocide: from social structure to political conduct / Néstor Duch-Brown and Antonio Fonfría

The microeconomic causes and consequences of genocides and mass atrocities / Patricia Justino

Development and the risk of mass atrocities: an assessment of the empirical literature / Anke Hoeffler

Who stays and who leaves during mass atrocities? / Ana María Ibáñez and Andrés Moya

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

"For being aboriginal"

economic perspectives on pre-Holocaust genocides / Jurgen Brauer and Raul Caruso

Identity and incentives: an economic interpretation of the Holocaust / Raul Caruso

The economics of genocide in Rwanda / Willa Friedman

Peace and the killing: compatible logics in the Democratic Republic of the Congo / Zoë Marriage

Gender and the genocidal economy / Elisa von Joeden-Forgey

Part IV: Economics and mass atrocities: case studies II

On the logistics of violence: evidence from Stalin's great terror, Nazi-occupied Belarus, and modern African civil wars / Yuri M. Zhukov

Strategic atrocities: civilians under crossfire

theory and evidence from Colombia / Juan F. Vargas

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

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

Economic foundations of religious killings and genocide with special reference to Pakistan, 1978-2012 / Partha Gangopadhyay

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

Economic risk factors and predictive modeling of genocide and mass killing / Charles R. Butcher and Benjamin E. Goldsmith

Business in genocide: understanding and avoiding complicity / Nora M. Stel and Wim Naudé

Valuing lives you might save: understanding psychic numbing in the face of genocide / Paul Slovic, Daniel Västfjäll, Robin Gregory, and Kimberly G. Olson

Genocides and other mass atrocities: a law and economics approach / Jurgen Brauer, Charles H. Anderton, and David Schap

Local and national democracy in political reconstruction / Roger B. Myerson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Economic aspects of genocides, other mass atrocities, and their prevention

ISBN:

9780199378296

0199378290

OCLC:

939911188