Wreckonomics : why it's time to end the war on everything / Ruben Andersson and David Keen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Andersson, Ruben, 1977- author.

Keen, David, 1958- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Policy sciences--Case studies.

Policy sciences.

Political ethics--Case studies.

Political ethics.

Political science--Decision making--Case studies.

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Wreckonomics examines the Cold War, the "war on terror", the "fight against illegal migration", and the "war on drugs and crime" through political systems analysis. The book argues that these various "wars" have freqeuently been damaging and even counterproductive. It also considers the costs of laissez faire and lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Contents:

Cover

Wreckonomics

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Crime Scene Investigation

The Puzzle

The Burned Thumb

The Cases

2. Wreckonomics 101: How Failure Became the New Success

Listen to the Pattern

Political Systems Analysis: From Conspiracy and Complexity to Co-​creation

Wreckanisms: Four "Fixes" (and One Great Unfix)

3. Cold War Games: When War Is a Self-​Licking Ice-​Cream Cone

War and Security Rethought

Orchestrating War "at the Appropriate Level"

Mutually Assured Construction

The Self-​Licking Ice-​Cream Cone

Complicity, Atrocity, Strategy

4. A Life of Its Own: The "War on Terror" as Frankenstein's Monster

Enemy Wanted

Afghanistan: Expanding the Enemy

Shark-​Infested Waters: Sri Lanka's Conflict

Runaway Terror: Syria's Long War

Mutation and Proliferation: Mali and the Sahel

Ways Out of the Franken-​war

5. Double Games: Fear and Fraud in the Fight against Migration

"Fighting the Illegals": Europe's Outsourced Border-​Builders

Escalating the Fights, Escalating the Demands

Globalized Border Security and Its Winners

The Cascade Grows: Migrant Tactics and Political Instability

Staging the Crisis

6. Warriors on Drugs: How States Got Hooked on Narcotics and Crime

Between Cloud Nine and the Killing Fields

Anslinger's Gambit

Selective Enforcement

Fleece Me in St. Louis: Visiting the War on Crime

Mexico, Colombia, and the Mirage of a "Drug-​Free World"

Addiction through Externalization

7. The Hall of Mirrors: The Distortion of Disastrous Interventions

Back to the Funfair

Three Mirrors

Afghanistan and "the Best Picture Possible"

The Road to Turf-​dom

History, Accountability, and Policy-​Based Evidence-​Making

8. Wreckonomics Goes Viral? The Costs of Laissez-​Faire and Lockdown.

Viral Nationalism? A (W)reckless Combination

A People's War? COVID in the Crosshairs

Fixation Squared: The Virus Goes Viral

Public Health and "War"

9. How to End the War on Everything (In Four Complex Steps)

Foment Dissent and Dialogue: Opening Up the Information Environment

Make Externalities Count: Toward a Proper Cost-​Benefit Analysis

Coalitions against Complicity: Or How to Turn the System against Itself

Unfixing the Problem

10. Waging Peace: How (Not) to Fight the System

The Politics of Distraction

The Case of the Missing W

Revolution as the "Solution"?

Waging Peace

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on September 12, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Andersson, Ruben Wreckonomics

ISBN:

0-19-764595-X

0-19-764593-3

0-19-764594-1

OCLC:

1396982372