CARLO GALLI: Political Spaces and War (Book Review)

Political Bias and War

We examine how countries’ incentives to go to war depend on the “political bias” of their pivotal decision-makers. This bias is measured by a decision maker’s risk/reward ratio from a war compared to that of the country at large. If there is no political bias, then there are mutually acceptable transfers from one country to the other that will avoid a war in the presence of commitment or enforc...

Book Review: Convivial Urban Spaces: Creating Effective Public Places

Book Review: War Is Not Inevitable: On the Psychology of War and Aggression.

Feel lonely? What about reading books? Book is one of the greatest friends to accompany while in your lonely time. When you have no friends and activities somewhere and sometimes, reading book can be a great choice. This is not only for spending the time, it will increase the knowledge. Of course the b=benefits to take will relate to what kind of book that you are reading. And now, we will conc...

War, Transfers, and Political Bias∗

We examine the incentives for countries to go to war as they depend on the comparison of how much their pivotal decision-makers have at risk compared to how much they stand to gain from a war. How this ratio compares to the country at large is what we term “political bias”. If there is no political bias (a case that we loosely relate to a “pure democracy”), then there are always payments that o...

Book Review

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