Incluye bibliografías e índice.

Part I. Introduction: 1. Economic perspectives on peace and conflict / Michelle R. Garfinkel and Stergios Skaperdas -- Part II. Correlates of peace and conflict: 2. Informational aspects of conflict / Karl Warneryd ; 3. Commitment problems and shifting power as a cause of conflict / Robert Powell ; 4. Bargaining and conflict with incomplete information / Santiago Sanchez-Pages ; 5. The Hobbesian trap / Sandeep Baliga and Tomas Sjostrom ; 6. Religion, conflict and cooperation / Michael T. McBride and Gary Richardson ; 7. Comparing polarization measures / Joan Esteban and Debraj Ray ; 8. Inequality, polarization and conflict / José G. Montalvo and Marta Reynal-Querol ; 9. On the causes of civil war / Anke Hoeffler ; 10. Reflections on Africa's wars / Jean-Paul Azam -- Part III. Consequences and costs of conflict: 11. Methods for measuring aggregate costs of conflict / Javier Gardeazabal ; 12. How many bucks in a bang: on the estimation of the economic costs of conflict / Tilman Bruck, Olaf J. de Groot and Carlos Bozzoli ; 13. Estimating the costs of war: methodological issues, with applications to Iraq and Afghanistan / Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilmes ; 14. estimating the human costs of war : a sample survey approach / Michael Spagat ; 15. Mental health in the aftermath of conflict / Quy-Toan Do and Lakshmi Iyer ; 16. Measuring the economic costs of terrorism / Walter Enders and Eric Olson ; 17. Assessing the efects of military expenditure on growth /Giorgio d'Agostino, J. Paul Dunne, and Luca Pieroni ; 18. The economic welfare cost of conflict : an empirical assessment / S. Brock Blomberg and Gregory D. Hess -- Part IV. On the mechanics of conflict: 19. Technologies of conflict / Hao Jia and Stergios Skaperdas ; 20. Endogenous formation of alliances in contests / Francis Bloch ; 21. Conflict with multiple battlefields / Dan Kovenock and Brian Roberson ; 22. Laboratory experiments on conflict. ; Klaus Abbink -- Part V. Conflict and peace in economic context: 23. War, trade, and natural resources: A historical perspective / Ronald Findlay and Kevin O'Rourke ; 24. Trade in the shadow of power / Michelle R. Garfinkel, Stergios Skaperdas, and Constantinos Syropoulos ; 25. Conflict and policy in general equilibrium: Insights from a standard trade model / Ernesto Dal Bo and Pedro Dal Bo ; 26. The use of coercion in society: insecure property rights, conflict and economic backwardness / Francisco M. Gonzalez ; 27. War and poverty / Patricia Justino ; 28. Aggressive elites and vulnerable entrepreneurs: Trust and cooperation in the shadow ; of conflict / Halvor Mehlum and Karl Moene ; Part VI: Pathways to peace ; 29. Globalization and international conflict: Can FDI increase cooperation among nations? / Solomon W. Polachek, Carlos Seiglie and Jun Xiang ; 30. National borders, conflict and peace / Enrico Spolaore ; 31. Political institutions and war initiation: The democratic peace hypothesis revisited / Michelle R. Garfinkel ; 32. Why follow the leader? Collective action, credible commitment and conflict / Philip Keefer ; 33. Conflict -inhibiting norms / Peter T. Leeson and Christopher J. Coyne.