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On Genocide, Economic Reasons vs. Ethnic Passion

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Damien Bazin () (University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France)
Jerome Ballet () (University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ) Center of Ethics and Economics for Environment and Development (C3ED), France)
Francois-Regis Mahieu () (University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ) Center of Ethics and Economics for Environment and Development (C3ED), France)

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Abstract

The traditional vision of genocide is exogenous. In this framework, ethnies have a real sense. The economic approach of conflicts has expressed slight differences in the relation between ethnies and conflicts. However it does not reject this explanation. Here we propose an alternative approach, an endogenous vision of genocide. Genocide appears in society where social capital plays a major role in solidarities. But social capital is a weak asset in the individual portfolio. Economic and social shocks may have impacts on the assets structure and may produce conflicts such as genocide. In this new framework, policy makers may have to adopt prudential rules.

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Paper provided by Faculty of economics, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number 200844.

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Length: 11 pages
Date of creation: Jun 2008
Date of revision: Dec 2008
Publication status: Published in Panoeconomicus, December 2008, pages 485-496
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Keywords: Conflicts; Ethnocide; Genocide; Policies implications; Social capital;

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