Jurgen Brauer
Macroeconomics and violence
Brauer, Jurgen; Dunne, John Paul
Authors
John Paul Dunne
Contributors
Derek Braddon derek.braddon@uwe.ac.uk
Editor
Keith Hartley
Editor
Abstract
This chapter considers macroeconomic aspects of violence. It moves beyond the usual focus on war to argue
the economic importance of all forms and aspects of armed and unarmed violence. Violence refers to acts of self-harm,
interpersonal violence, and collective violence. Self-harm includes suicide; interpersonal violence includes organized
criminal violence as well as domestic and workplace violence. Collective violence generally denotes political entities that are in, or at risk of, internal or external violent conflict as well as those that are in an insecure postwar predicament or wracked by pervasive armed criminal violence. In the past these different aspects of violence have been studied by different academic disciplines, with political scientists and defense economists tending to study the causes, consequences, and, lately, potential remedies of large-scale collective violence; and criminologists, public health experts, and crime economists tending to study interpersonal violence and self harm.
Recognizing the economic importance of all aspects of violence means that macroeconomic policy cannot be
considered in isolation from microeconomic developments or from regional, sectoral, distributional, and other economic
policies, nor from the social contexts in which violence takes place. The increasing complexity and interrelatedness of the various aspects of the economics of violence means that any discussion of the macroeconomic issues has to consider the cost of conflict and violence more broadly conceived. The chapter reviews violence, measures and measurements of the cost of violence, the economic causes and consequences of violence, some macroeconomic aspects of recovery from violence and postwar reconstruction, and some of the necessary framework conditions for recovery from violence.
Publication Date | Apr 1, 2011 |
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Deposit Date | Jan 6, 2011 |
Publicly Available Date | Dec 2, 2016 |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Book Title | Handbook on the Economics of Conflict |
ISBN | 978-1-84844-649 |
Keywords | violence, macroeconomics, postconflict recovery, conflict-affected states |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/963576 |
Publisher URL | http://www.e-elgar.co.uk/bookentry_main.lasso?id=13624 |
Related Public URLs | http://carecon.org.uk/DPs/1003.pdf |
Additional Information | Additional Information : This book chapter © Edward Elgar. Any download is for personal use only. |
Contract Date | Dec 2, 2016 |
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