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Zusatztext 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. Informationen zum Autor Michelle R. Garfinkel is Professor of Economics at UC 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 UC Irvine. He has developed an approach that allows the study of a number of economic and political problems. His research has been published in a variety of journals, including the American Economic Review and the American Political Science Review. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Wÿrneryd 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 Brÿck, Olaf J. de Groot and Carlos Bozzoli 13. Estimating the costs of war: Methodological issues, with appli...
