Alongside other types of mass atrocities, genocide has received
extensive scholarly, policy, and practitioner attention. Missing,
however, is the contribution of economists to better understand and
prevent such crimes. 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 nature of
genocide. Replete with research- and policy-relevant findings, new
insights are derived from behavioral economics, law and economics,
political economy, macroeconomic modeling, microeconomics,
development economics, industrial organization, identity economics,
and other fields. Analytical approaches include constrained
optimization theory, game theory, and sophisticated statistical
work in data-mining, econometrics, and forecasting. A foremost
finding of the book concerns atrocity architects' purposeful,
strategic use of violence, often manipulating nonrational
proclivities among ordinary people to sway their participation in
mass murder. Relatively understudied in the literature, the book
also analyzes the options of victims before, during, and after mass
violence. Further, the book shows how well-intended prevention
efforts can backfire and increase violence, how wrong post-genocide
design can entrench vested interests to reinforce exclusion of
vulnerable peoples, and how businesses can become complicit in
genocide. In addition to the necessity of healthy opportunities in
employment, education, and key sectors in prevention work, the book
shows why new genocide prevention laws and institutions must be
based on reformulated incentives that consider insights from law
and economics, behavioral economics, and collective action
economics.
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