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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Terrorism and statistics
An interesting book in which the best aspects are the use of the theory of games and economic behavior to analyze the behavior of terorism. The tools used are powerful but the conclusions are insufficient.
Published on January 13, 2007 by Fernando Chavarri Dicenta
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"Why Can't A Terrorist Be More Like An Economist?"
I have visions of Enders and Sandler breaking into a version of the famous song from My Fair Lady where exasperated Professor Henry Higgins asks "Why can't a woman be more like a man?" Only they ask: "Why can't a terrorist be more like an economist?" Now if that were the case things would be much less complicated and I would not be writing a negative review! But,...
Published 5 months ago by John Marke
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Terrorism and statistics,
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This review is from: The Political Economy of Terrorism (Paperback)
An interesting book in which the best aspects are the use of the theory of games and economic behavior to analyze the behavior of terorism. The tools used are powerful but the conclusions are insufficient.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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"Why Can't A Terrorist Be More Like An Economist?",
By John Marke (Pacific, Mo United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Political Economy of Terrorism (Kindle Edition)
I have visions of Enders and Sandler breaking into a version of the famous song from My Fair Lady where exasperated Professor Henry Higgins asks "Why can't a woman be more like a man?" Only they ask: "Why can't a terrorist be more like an economist?" Now if that were the case things would be much less complicated and I would not be writing a negative review! But, unfortunately, that is not the case.Few things in this world can be reduced to one independent variable. Terrorism is an enormously complex phenomena and it stretches credulity to suggest rational choice theory is anything but a waste of time and money in this context. But without the epistemic underpinning of rational choice there is no microeconomic modeling, there is no game theory....and a lot of political economists would be out of a job. Rational choice theory and game theory do not work in complex adaptive systems, especially in terrorism. It fails to adequately describe, explain, or predict. |
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The Political Economy of Terrorism by Walter Enders (Paperback - November 7, 2005)
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