[PDF] The Economies Of Violence eBook

Author : Gary M. Shiffman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 33,63 MB
Release : 2020-01-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108882838

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How do we understand illicit violence? Can we prevent it? Building on behavioral science and economics, this book begins with the idea that humans are more predictable than we like to believe, and this ability to model human behavior applies equally well to leaders of violent and coercive organizations as it does to everyday people. Humans ultimately seek survival for themselves and their communities in a world of competition. While the dynamics of 'us vs. them' are divisive, they also help us to survive. Access to increasingly larger markets, facilitated through digital communications and social media, creates more transnational opportunities for deception, coercion, and violence. If the economist's perspective helps to explain violence, then it must also facilitate insights into promoting peace and security. If we can approach violence as behavioral scientists, then we can also better structure our institutions to create policies that make the world a more secure place, for us and for future generations.

Author : Jennifer Suchland
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 16,56 MB
Release : 2015-07-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0822375281

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Recent human rights campaigns against sex trafficking have focused on individual victims, treating trafficking as a criminal aberration in an otherwise just economic order. In Economies of Violence Jennifer Suchland directly critiques these explanations and approaches, as they obscure the reality that trafficking is symptomatic of complex economic and social dynamics and the economies of violence that sustain them. Examining United Nations proceedings on women's rights issues, government and NGO anti-trafficking policies, and campaigns by feminist activists, Suchland contends that trafficking must be understood not solely as a criminal, gendered, and sexualized phenomenon, but as operating within global systems of precarious labor, neoliberalism, and the transition from socialist to capitalist economies in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc. In shifting the focus away from individual victims, and by underscoring trafficking's economic and social causes, Suchland provides a foundation for building more robust methods for combatting human trafficking.

Author : Jacqui True
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 20,21 MB
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199755914

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Violence against women is a major problem in all countries, affecting women in every socio-economic group and at every life stage. Yet, when women enjoy good social and economic status they are less vulnerable to violence across all societies. This book develops a political economy approach to understanding violence against women - from the household to the transnational level - accounting for its globally increasing scale and brutality.

Author : Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 36,12 MB
Release : 2010-09-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0745330630

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A study of workers struggles against management regimes in Britain's car industry from the Second World War to the late 1980s.

Author : Douglass C. North
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 20,60 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107014212

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This book explains how political control of economic privileges is used to limit violence and coordinate coalitions of powerful organizations.

Author : Richard Rosenfeld
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 48,21 MB
Release : 2013-08-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0814760775

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How do economic conditions such as poverty, unemployment, inflation, and economic growth impact youth violence? Economics and Youth Violence provides a much-needed new perspective on this crucial issue. Pinpointing the economic factors that are most important, the editors and contributors in this volume explore how different kinds of economic issues impact children, adolescents, and their families, schools, and communities.Offering new and important insights regarding the relationship between macroeconomic conditions and youth violence across a variety of times and places, chapters cover such issues as the effect of inflation on youth violence; new quantitative analysis of the connection between race, economic opportunity, and violence; and the cyclical nature of criminal backgrounds and economic disadvantage among families. Highlighting the complexities in the relationship between economic conditions, juvenile offenses, and the community and situational contexts in which their connections are forged, Economics and Youth Violence prompts important questions that will guide future research on the causes and prevention of youth violence. Contributors: Sarah Beth Barnett, Eric P. Baumer, Philippe Bourgois, Shawn Bushway, Philip J. Cook, Robert D. Crutchfield, Linda L. Dahlberg, Mark Edberg, Jeffrey Fagan, Xiangming Fang, Curtis S. Florence, Ekaterina Gorislavsky, Nancy G. Guerra, Karen Heimer, Janet L. Lauritsen, Jennifer L. Matjasko, James A. Mercy, Matthew Phillips, Richard Rosenfeld, Tim Wadsworth, Valerie West, Kevin T. Wolff

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,82 MB
Release : 2012-03-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309220246

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Measuring the social and economic costs of violence can be difficult, and most estimates only consider direct economic effects, such as productivity loss or the use of health care services. Communities and societies feel the effects of violence through loss of social cohesion, financial divestment, and the increased burden on the healthcare and justice systems. Initial estimates show that early violence prevention intervention has economic benefits. The IOM Forum on Global Violence Prevention held a workshop to examine the successes and challenges of calculating direct and indirect costs of violence, as well as the potential cost-effectiveness of intervention.

Author : Douglass Cecil North
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 27,87 MB
Release : 2009-02-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521761735

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This book integrates the problem of violence into a larger framework, showing how economic and political behavior are closely linked.

Author : Raymond Fisman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 16,37 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0691134545

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"Economic Gangsters" is a fascinating exploration of the dark side of economic development. Two of the world's most creative young economists use their remarkable talents for economic sleuthing to study violence, corruption, and poverty in the most unexpected ways--Steven D. Levitt, coauthor of "Freakonomics."

Author : Vickie Cooper
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 29,53 MB
Release : 2017-05-20
Category :
ISBN : 9780745337463

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Austerity, a response to the aftermath of the financial crisis, continues to devastate contemporary Britain.In The Violence of Austerity, Vickie Cooper and David Whyte bring together the voices of campaigners and academics including Danny Dorling, Mary O'Hara and Rizwaan Sabir to show that rather than stimulating economic growth, austerity policies have led to a dismantling of the social systems that operated as a buffer against economic hardship, exposing austerity to be a form of systematic violence.Covering a range of famous cases of institutional violence in Britain, the book argues that police attacks on the homeless, violent evictions in the rented sector, the risks faced by people on workfare schemes, community violence in Northern Ireland and cuts to the regulation of social protection, are all being driven by reductions in public sector funding. The result is a shocking expos� of the myriad ways in which austerity policies harm people in Britain.