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Conflict, War, and Redistribution
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In this article, the authors analyze the circumstances under which conflict leads to the outbreak of war using a formal model which incorporates both the redistribution of resources as an alternative to war and imperfect information.Abstract:
This article analyzes the circumstances under which conflict leads to the outbreak of war using a formal model which incorporates both the redistribution of resources as an alternative to war and imperfect information. Countries act as rational agents concerned with both consumption and the public bad of a war. In the first period both countries can either consume or build arms, whereas in the second period there can be either the threat or the use of force to reallocate resources. If both countries are fully informed, then there will be no war but rather a voluntary redistribution of resources. In a situation of asymmetric information, however, in which one country is fully informed and the other is not, a war can occur if the uninformed country uses a separating equilibrium strategy, precommitting itself to a positive probability of war in order to prevent bluffing by the informed country.read more
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Swords or Plowshares? A Theory of the Security of Claims to Property
TL;DR: In this article, a general equilibrium model of the allocation of resources among appropriative and productive activities is developed, which emphasizes the distinction between offensive weapons and fortifications, which provide defense against predation.
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Economics of Conflict: An Overview
TL;DR: In contrast to other economic activities in which inputs are combined cooperatively through production functions, the inputs to appropriation are combined adversarially through technologies of conflict as mentioned in this paper, and the effects of conflict on economic outcomes are identified: the determinants of the distribution of output (or power) and how an individual party's share can be inversely related to its marginal productivity.
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An Evaluation of “Does Economic Inequality Breed Political Conflict?” Studies
TL;DR: The most fruitful approach is to combine the assumptions of the theory builders and the deductive approach of the formal modelers with the various empirical tests of the statistical modelers.
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Capabilities, Uncertainty, and Resolve: A Limited Information Model of Crisis Bargaining
TL;DR: In this article, a crisis bargaining game under limited information is presented, where the sides alternate offers from three possible offers, with war and its costs starting if the target's counteroffer is rejected.
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The analytics of continuing conflict
TL;DR: In this article, a general-equilibrium steady-state model was proposed to characterize the hostile and destructive interactions that characterize real-world social relations, in contrast with the harmonistic bias of orthodox economic theory.
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