Wreckonomics - Andersson, Ruben (Professor of Social Anthropology, Professor of Soc; Keen, David (Professor of Conflict Studies, Professor of Conflict St
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In Wreckonomics, Ruben Andersson and David Keen analyze why policies continue to live on when it has become apparent that they do not work. They show how the perverse outcomes we see in the fight against terror, migration, and drugs are part of the proliferation of pseudo-wars that have become a dangerous political habit and an endless source of profit. Covering a range of cases around the world, the authors expose and interrogate the incentive systems that allow destructive and failed policies to remain in effect. They also develop strategies to collectively dismantle the addiction to waging war on everything.…mehr

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In Wreckonomics, Ruben Andersson and David Keen analyze why policies continue to live on when it has become apparent that they do not work. They show how the perverse outcomes we see in the fight against terror, migration, and drugs are part of the proliferation of pseudo-wars that have become a dangerous political habit and an endless source of profit. Covering a range of cases around the world, the authors expose and interrogate the incentive systems that allow destructive and failed policies to remain in effect. They also develop strategies to collectively dismantle the addiction to waging war on everything.
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Ruben Andersson is a professor of social anthropology at the Department of International Development at the University of Oxford. His research has been concerned with borders, migration and security, and he is the author of No Go World (2019) and Illegality, Inc. (2014), winner of the 2015 BBC Ethnography Award. David Keen is a professor of conflict studies at the Department of International Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has researched civil wars, global wars and disasters. He is the author of The Benefits of Famine (1994) and Useful Enemies (2012), among other books, and winner of the Edgar Graham prize.