Inequality and conflict: Burning resources to support peace

We consider a simple, guns-versus-butter model in which agents choose between “war” and “peace” to study the implications of inequality in resource ownership for equilibrium outcomes. Provided war is destructive, peace can emerge as the stable equilibrium, but only if the distribution of resource ow...

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Published inEconomics letters Vol. 197; p. 109601
Main Authors Garfinkel, Michelle R., Syropoulos, Constantinos
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 01.12.2020
Elsevier Science Ltd
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