The Economics of Violence: How Behavioral Science Can Transform Our View of Crime, Insurgency, and Terrorism

ISBN-13: 9781107092464 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 242 str.

Gary Shiffman

Opis

Using behavioral economics, we can change how we perceive the threats to our safety and security faced today and better inform the institutions of our future.

Recenzje

'The Economics of Violence: How Behavioral Science Can Transform our View of Crime, Insurgency, and Terrorism is a model of meticulous scholarship that is expertly organized and effectively presented. An impressively informative contribution to our on-going national dialogue, especially given the dramatic impact that the pandemic is having on both the American and the Global economies … It should be noted for the personal reading lists of students, academia, governmental policy makers, and non- specialist general readers with an interest in the subject that …' James A. Cox, Midwest Book Review

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Violence; 2. The human condition; 3. Organized crime; 4. Insurgency; 5. Terrorism; 6. The rise of the Islamic State in al Qaeda's market; 7. Conclusions and prescriptions.