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Macroeconomics and violence

Brauer, Jurgen; Dunne, John Paul

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Authors

Jurgen Brauer

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.

Citation

Brauer, J., & Dunne, J. P. (2011). Macroeconomics and violence. In D. Braddon, & K. Hartley (Eds.), Handbook on the Economics of Conflict. Edward Elgar

Publication Date Apr 1, 2011
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.

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