The Oxford handbook of the economics of peace and conflict

Abstract

Social scientists and policy makers have long been interested in the causes and consequences of peace and conflict. This publication brings together contributions from leading scholars who take an economic perspective to study the topic. It includes thirty-three articles 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, these five sections 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 articles 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.

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