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Preferences for privacy and security: an experimental investigation

Stowe, C. Jill; Krause, Kate; Chermak, Janie M. - In: Economics of Peace and Security Journal 5 (2010) 1, pp. 34-42

The article experimentally investigates individuals’ choice behavior between privacy and security. In a convenience … for either high security or high privacy positions. Identifiable factors influenced these choices. For example, while the … high security individuals responded to losses they personally experienced in the experiment, high privacy subjects …

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Preferences for privacy and security: An experimental investigation

Stowe, C. Jill; Krause, Kate; Chermak, Janie M. - In: Economics of Peace and Security Journal 5 (2010) 1, pp. 34-42

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010941296

Introduction: A New Journal

Brauer, Jurgen; Dunne, J Paul - In: Economics of Peace and Security Journal 1 (2006) 1, pp. 4-5

This piece introduces the new journal. This issue 'Conflict or Development?' has a regional focus on Africa. Joseph Stiglitz discusses the role of information in conflict and draws a fascinating analogy between civil strife and a labor strike. Paul Collier and Neil Cooper take different...

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. Transnational threats and security in the Americas: patterns, contradictions, and more.

Pumar, Enrique S. - In: Economics of Peace and Security Journal 2 (2007) 2, pp. 69-76

transnationalism, especially of transnational security concerns, into any consideration of peace in the region. Transnational threat …

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War and military spending in developing countries and their consequences for development

Collier, Paul - In: Economics of Peace and Security Journal 1 (2006) 1, pp. 10-13

without jeopardizing security interests. Military expenditure does not appear to be an effective deterrent of rebellion, and …, if it is reduced in a coordinated manner across a region then external security interests would be unaffected. The …

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Angola: Conflict and development, 1962-2002

Ferreira, Manuel Ennes - In: Economics of Peace and Security Journal 1 (2006) 1, pp. 25-29

Can a country achieve its development goals or, at least, its economic growth goals when it faces forty years of war? Angola's case serves as a paradigmatic example to answer this question. From 1961 to 1974, Angolans opposed Portuguese colonial rule by violent, revolutionary struggle. But from...

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War and reconstruction in northern Mozambique

Bruck, Tilman - In: Economics of Peace and Security Journal 1 (2006) 1, pp. 30-39

The article discusses some of the economic effects of war in northern Mozambique. It indicates how the historical and structural features of the economy of northern Mozambique restricted post-war reconstruction and post-war poverty alleviation. These features include the dominance of only a few...

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An economic approach to peacemaking and peacekeeping

Dumas, Lloyd J. - In: Economics of Peace and Security Journal 1 (2006) 2, pp. 7-12

The greatest contribution that economics can make to banishing war lies in creating conditions that help keep the peace, especially in the long run. The problem is to identify the set of conditions that will generate positive incentives for nations to keep the peace and work out a set of...

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Privatizing war and security in Afghanistan: Future or dead end?

Giustozzi, Antonio - In: Economics of Peace and Security Journal 2 (2007) 1, pp. 30-34

been happy with the Afghan Security Forces and ad hoc militias and only replaced them because of political reasons or … because they felt that they were no longer needed. By contrast, the work of private security companies seems to have satisfied … money to the governments involved in the medium and long-term. Moreover, private security contractors are not subject to the …

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The British military-industrial complex in history: The importance of political economy

Edgerton, David - In: Economics of Peace and Security Journal 3 (2008) 1, pp. 6-10

This article highlights the until quite recently neglected political-economic thinking in matters of defense in twentieth-century Britain. It argues that retrieving such analyses from the interwar years is an excellent although partial way to get at an alternative picture of interwar defense...

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