Hidden Interactions in the Economics of Peace and Conflict

Gearoid Millar

doi:10.1002/sea2.12168

Hidden Interactions in the Economics of Peace and Conflict

Gearoid Millar^* (Corresponding Author)

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At a critical peacebuilding workshop in 2014, I presented findings from my ethnographic study of a bio-energy project in Sierra Leone, describing the unexpected economic impacts within local villages (see 2016, 2018a). Shortly afterwards, an economist attending the workshop stated – without apparent humour – that the challenge was to find out why people in these villages diverged from the economic models. For him, and many other economists, the problem lies not with the models, but with these strange people living outside the ordered rationality of homo-economicus.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	150-152
Number of pages	3
Journal	Economic Anthropology
Volume	7
Issue number	1
Early online date	7 Jan 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/sea2.12168
Publication status	Published - Jan 2020

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This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Millar, G. (2020), Hidden Interactions in the Economics of Peace and Conflict. Economic Anthropology, 7: 150-152., which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/sea2.12168. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.
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