The United States' ignominious exit from Afghanistan in 2021 topped
two decades of failure and devastation wrought by the war on
terror. A long-running "fight against migration" has stoked chaos
and rights abuses while pushing migrants onto more dangerous
routes. For its part, the war on drugs has failed to dampen
narcotics demand while fueling atrocities from Mexico to the
Philippines. Why do such "failing" policies persist for so long?
And why do politicians keep feeding the very crises they say they
are combating? In Wreckonomics, Ruben Andersson and David Keen
analyze why disastrous policies live on even when it has become
apparent that they do not work. The perverse outcomes of the fights
against terror, migration, and drugs are more than a blip or an
anomaly. Rather, the proliferation of pseudo-wars has become a
dangerous political habit and an endless source of political
advantage and profit. From combating crime to the war on drugs,
from civil wars to global wars and even "covid wars," chronic
failure has been harnessed to the appearance of success. Over a
wide variety of spheres, problems have persisted and worsened not
so much despite the "wars" and "fights" waged against them as
thanks to these floundering endeavors. Covering a range of cases
around the world, Wreckonomics exposes and interrogates the
incentive systems that allow destructive policies to flourish in
the face of systemic failure - while offering strategies for
dismantling the addiction to waging war on everything.
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