Workers, Warriors and Criminals: Social Conflict in General Equilibrium

Workers, Warriors, and Criminals: Social Conict in General Equilibrium

We analyze how economic shocks and policies a¤ect the intensity of social con‡ict. We show that not all shocks that could make society richer reduce con‡ict. In our model, positive shocks to labor intensive industries diminish social con‡ict, while positive shocks to capital intensive industries increase it. The key requirement is that appropriation activities be more labor intensive than the e...

Workers, Warriors, and Criminals: Social Conflict in General Equilibrium by Ernesto Dal Bó and Pedro Dal Bó -- Reforms: IMF Sixth Jacques Polak Annual Research Conference, November 3-4, 2005

We analyze how economic shocks and policies affect the intensity of social conflict. We view conflict phenomena such as crime and civil war as involving resource appropriation activities. We show that not all shocks that could make society richer reduce conflict. Positive shocks to labor intensive industries diminish social conflict, while positive shocks to capital intensive industries increas...

Social objectives in general equilibrium

I consider an exchange economy in which each agent’s preferences are given by Ui = ui + θF , where ui is a standard utility function, F is a social objective function and θ is the weight F receives. Both F and θ are common to all individuals. I show that F ’s equilibrium value may be a decreasing function of θ. I also show that if F is a social welfare function whose argument are the ui’s, then...

Conflict in the workplace: social workers as victims and perpetrators.

Conflict and violence in the workplace have emerged as a real but inadequately explored concern in the social work profession. The present study surveyed a national random sample of 1029 NASW members about their experiences with client violence and with physical and psychological assault in relationship to practice setting, age, gender, and experience. Although results cannot be generalized due...

Professional-Bureaucratic Conflict and Intraorganizational Powerlessness among Social Workers