EBOOK Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Peace and Conflict

Social scientists and policy makers have long been interested in the causes and        consequences of peace and conflict. This Handbook brings together contributions from        leading scholars who take an economic perspective to study the topic. It includes        thirty-three chapters and is divided into five parts: Correlates of Peace and        Conflict; Consequences and Costs of Conflict; On the Mechanics of Conflict; Conflict        and Peace in Economic Context; and Pathways to Peace. Taken together, they        demonstrate not only how the tools of economics can be fruitfully used to advance        our understanding of conflict, but how explicitly incorporating conflict into        economic analysis can add substantively to our understanding of observed economic        phenomena. Some chapters are largely empirical, identifying correlates of war and        peace and quantifying many of the costs of conflict. Others are more theoretical,        exploring a variety of mechanisms that lead to war or are more conducive to        peace.