Homo Economicus Goes to War: Methodological Individualism, Rational Choice and the Political Economy of War

By Christopher Cramer. 2002

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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4. Christopher Cramer
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2. Christopher Cramer
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Citations in the corpus

• DOES INEQUALITY CAUSE CONFLICT (2003, background): “Collier and Hoeffler (1999) has a sample of 152 countries, of which 53 had civil wars between 1965 and 1995; however, there they state that for ‘complete’ war data they are restricted to 24 war episodes or, with some manipulation, 40. 5 Cramer (2002) presents a critique of neo-classical economic t”
• Environmental changes and violent conflict (2012, background): “This work, which remains very much contested (Brunnschweiler and Bulte 2008, de Soysa 2002a, 2002b, Cramer 2002), is less relevant in our context because it deals with extraction of high value resources, for instance oil, gold or diamonds, rather than environmental changes. into areas that are…”
• Oil abundance and violent political conflict: A critical assessment (2007, background): “@rebellion against injustice has something of the qualities of a public good and, therefore, will also display the weaknesses of a public good, primarily susceptibility to free riders: hence, injustice might exist but will not produce sufficient conflict.”