Table of Contents

PART I - ECONOMICS AND MASS ATROCITIES: OVERVIEW

Chapter 1: On the Economics of Genocides, Other Mass Atrocities, and Their Prevention
Charles H. Anderton and Jurgen Brauer

Chapter 2: "A Crime Without A Name": Defining Genocide and Mass Atrocity
James E. Waller

Chapter 3: Datasets and Trends of Genocides, Mass Killings, and Other Civilian Atrocities
Charles H. Anderton

Chapter 4: The Demography of Genocide
Tadeusz Kugler

Chapter 5: The Macroeconomic Toll of Genocide and the Sources of Economic Development
Dimitrios Soudis, Robert Inklaar, and Robbert Maseland

PART II: ECONOMICS AND MASS ATROCITIES: THEORETICAL APPROACHES AND REVIEWS OF EMPIRICAL LITERATURE

Chapter 6: Genocide and Mass Killing Risk and Prevention: Perspectives from Constrained Optimization Models
Charles H. Anderton and Jurgen Brauer

Chapter 7: Incentives and Constraints for Mass Killings: A Game-Theoretic Approach
Joan Esteban, Massimo Morelli, and Dominic Rohner

Chapter 8: Genocide: From Social Structure to Political Conduct
Néstor Duch-Brown and Antonio Fonfría

Chapter 9: The Microeconomic Causes and Consequences of Genocides and Mass Atrocities
Patricia Justino

Chapter 10: Development and the Risk of Mass Atrocities: An Assessment of the Empirical Literature
Anke Hoeffler

Chapter 11: Who Stays and Who Leaves During Mass Atrocities?
Ana María Ibáñez and Andrés Moya

Chapter 12: Media Persuasion, Ethnic Hatred, and Mass Violence: A Brief Overview of Recent Advances
Maria Petrova and David Yanagizawa-Drott

PART III - ECONOMICS AND MASS ATROCITIES: CASE STUDIES I

Chapter 13: "For Being Aboriginal" - Economic Perspectives on Pre-Holocaust Genocides
Jurgen Brauer and Raul Caruso

Chapter 14: Identity and Incentives: An Economic Interpretation of the Holocaust
Raul Caruso

Chapter 15: The Economics of Genocide in Rwanda
Willa Friedman

Chapter 16: Peace and the Killing: Compatible Logics in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Zoë Marriage

Chapter 17: Gender and the Genocidal Economy
Elisa von Joeden-Forgey

PART IV - ECONOMICS AND MASS ATROCITIES: CASE STUDIES II

Chapter 18: On the Logistics of Violence: Evidence from Stalin's Great Terror, Nazi-Occupied Belarus, and Modern African Civil Wars
Yuri M. Zhukov

Chapter 19: Strategic Atrocities: Civilians under Crossfire - Theory and Evidence from Colombia
Juan F. Vargas

Chapter 20: From Pax Narcótica to Guerra Pública: Explaining Civilian Violence in Mexico's Illicit Drug Wars
Neil T.N. Ferguson, Maren M. Michaelsen, and Topher L. McDougal

Chapter 21: Long-Term Economic Development in the Presence of an Episode of Mass Killing: The Case of Indonesia, 1965-1966
S. Mansoob Murshed and Mohammad Zulfan Tadjoeddin

Chapter 22: Economic Foundations of Religious Killings and Genocide with Special Reference to Pakistan, 1978-2012
Partha Gangopadhyay

Chapter 23: Understanding Civil War Violence through Military Intelligence: Mining Suspects' Records from the Vietnam War
Rex W. Douglass

PART V - ECONOMICS AND MASS ATROCITIES: TOWARD PREDICTION AND PREVENTION

Chapter 24: Economic Risk Factors and Predictive Modeling of Genocide and Mass Killing
Charles R. Butcher and Benjamin E. Goldsmith

Chapter 25: Business in Genocide: Understanding and Avoiding Complicity
Nora M. Stel and Wim Naudé

Chapter 26: Valuing Lives You Might Save: Understanding Psychic Numbing in the Face of Genocide
Paul Slovic, Daniel Västfjäll, Robin Gregory, and Kimberly G. Olson

Chapter 27: Genocides and Other Mass Atrocities: A Law and Economics Approach
Jurgen Brauer, Charles H. Anderton, and David Schap

Chapter 28: Local and National Democracy in Political Reconstruction
Roger B. Myerson

About the Author

Dr. Charles H. Anderton is Professor of Economics and the W. Arthur Garrity Sr. Professor in Human Nature, Ethics and Society at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, where he has taught since 1986. His course offerings include the economics of war and peace and genocide and mass killing: perspectives from the social sciences. His research on war and peace has been published in a variety of journals and edited volumes in economics,
international relations, and related fields.

Dr. Jurgen Brauer is Professor of Economics, Hull College of Business, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, and Visiting Professor of Economics, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. Specializing in defense and peace economics, he is co-founder and co-editor of The Economics of Peace and Security Journal.

Reviews

"The editors do an excellent job of locating materials regarding certain painful spheres in one place for easier access to readings, reflections, and directions for the future. This book is a must read for all who seek to better understand these complex dynamics and work toward solutions...Recommended."--CHOICE
"Besides writing, jointly or separately, several keystone chapters that provide perspective and coherence to the whole collection, the editors clearly worked hard on planning the overall design and reviewing the individual papers to minimize straying."--Journal of Economic Literature
"The contributors interweave the human experiences of mass atrocities, genocides, and other aspects of crime with economic theory. The presentation is systematically comprehensive and engages a great mass of data, critical thinking, and great reflections. The editors do an excellent job of locating materials regarding certain painful spheres in one place for easier access to readings, reflections, and directions for the future. This book is a must read for all
who seek to better understand these complex dynamics and work toward solutions."
-- CHOICE
"This volume builds a useful bridge between the worlds of mass atrocities and economic theory by presenting a comprehensive, systematic and easily-digestible analysis of key drivers, sustainers and consequences. Economic Aspects of Genocides, Other Mass Atrocities, and Their Prevention unveils six dimensions of interactivity (namely: choice, economic conditions, real economy, wealth appropriation, business organization and socio-economic fundamentals),
which are expertly woven throughout the publication. These pillars are both illuminating and instructive for scholars and practitioners, who are continually challenged to grapple with the complex theoretical
and empirical underpinnings of the economics-mass atrocities nexus, while also gleaning keen policy insights for prevention and post-disaster reconstruction. This book is a must-read for all who are seeking to better understand these complex dynamics and work towards solutions that are effective and enduring!"
-- Raymond Gilpin, Dean of the Africa Center for Strategic Studies in Washington D.C. and former Director for Economics and Associate Vice President at the United States Institute for Peace