War, whether external or internal, large or small, is a costly endeavor. Loss of life, loss of close friends or family …, and the destruction of material possessions all play a part in the costs of war. The purpose of this paper is to capture …-peaceful world. But how much would individual be willing to pay to avoid just the economic costs of conflict? Remarkably, even these …

IMF’s Structural Adjustment Program, and the effect of Tajikistan’s civil war on ex-combatants’ capacity for trust and … cooperation. Taken together, these contributions show that economics needs a theory of conflict to understand both outright …

The Political Economy of War and Peace brings insights into the political and economic forces that shape the … international, sub-national and ethnic conflicts of the present post-Cold War era. The larger vision is that war must be studied as … estimations. War appears as an endogenous aspect of systems of social interaction. The point of the volume is not simply to be …

same topic, which have focused on the ethnic dimensions of war (Horowitz 1985), the general causes and consequences of … civil war and civil conflict (Sambanis 2002; Collier and Hoeffler, 2007; Blattman and Miguel 2010), and more general aspects …

theoretical, examining the mechanisms that lead to war or are more conducive to peace. …