Wreckonomics: Why It's Time to End the War on Everything

Andersson, Ruben; Keen, David

ISBN 10: 0197645925 / ISBN 13: 9780197645925

Published by Oxford University Press, 2023

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Wreckonomics: Why It's Time to End the War on Everything
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0197645925
• ISBN 13: 9780197645925
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The habit of waging war on everything, from terror to migration and even culture, has become a dangerous and profitable addiction. We urgently need to understand the vested interests sustaining this addiction in order to break out of the crises haunting our human future.

About the Author

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.