Economic aspects of genocides, other mass atrocities, and their prevention [electronic resource] / edited by Charles H. Anderton and Jurgen Brauer.
Anderton, Charles H., editor.; Brauer, Jurgen, 1957- editor.
2016
HV6322.7 .E26 2016eb
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Economic aspects of genocides, other mass atrocities, and their prevention [electronic resource] / edited by Charles H. Anderton and Jurgen Brauer.
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9780199378319 (electronic book)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199378296
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New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
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English
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1 online resource (xvi, 709 pages) : illustrations
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10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199378296 doi
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HV6322.7 .E26 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
364.151
Summary
This edited collection by 41 accomplished scholars examines economic aspects of genocides, other mass atrocities, and their prevention. 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).
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This edited collection by 41 accomplished scholars examines economic aspects of genocides, other mass atrocities, and their prevention. 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).
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Anderton, Charles H., editor.
Brauer, Jurgen, 1957- editor.
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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.

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