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1 online resource |
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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 |
| 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), probing literature reviews, and completely novel work based on extraordinary country-specific datasets. Also included are chapters on the demographic, gendered, and economic class |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Genocide -- Economic aspects
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Genocide -- Case studies
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Genocide -- Prevention
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Atrocities -- Economic aspects
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Atrocities -- Prevention
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
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Genocide
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Genocide -- Prevention
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Völkermord
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Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit
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Wirtschaft
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Prävention
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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Case studies.
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Études de cas.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Anderton, Charles H., editor, author
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Brauer, Jurgen, 1957- editor, author.
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| LC no. |
2016008304 |
| ISBN |
9780199378302 |
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0199378304 |
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9780199378319 |
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0199378312 |
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