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Warpreneurship: War as a Business

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  • Gerald Peter Mutonyi

    (Kenyatta University)

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Making profits out of war is an ancient phenomenon. There are enterprises constantly supplying material to prepare armies and consequently profit from war. Enterprises have become aware that war itself and the post-war period is undoubtedly lucrative. However, the war also never works for any individual or group, except a dominant elite few: the wealth who propagate and influence patriotic and despotic war-peddling all over the world, making trillions of dollars in profit out of devastations and deaths, at the same time exciting their nationalism, and inspiring the citizen’s backing. The paper has examined Executive Outcomes (a commercial security firm) and the United States of America, Russia, Kenya and Uganda as countries that are examples of those engaging in Warpreneurship. But in the long run, the war in itself does not result in peace but immense profits and securing resources for the dominant elite few. JEL Classification: K40

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  • Gerald Peter Mutonyi, 2021. "Warpreneurship: War as a Business," Traektoriâ Nauki = Path of Science, Altezoro, s.r.o. & Dialog, vol. 7(09), pages 3001-3010, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:pos:journl:74-4
    DOI: 10.22178/pos.74-11
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    Keywords

    war; entrepreneurship; warpreneurship; axis of virtuous;
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    • K40 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior - - - General

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