A powerful exposé of the war framework that governments around the world have adopted to tackle difficult problems yet which locks them into failed and cruel policies that never seem to end.
It also develops strategies to collectively dismantle the addiction to waging war on everything..
Covering a range of cases around the world, Wreckonomics exposes and interrogates the incentive systems that allow destructive policies to remain in effect even in the face of systemic failure.
A wide variety of problems have persisted or even worsened not so much despite the wars and pseudo-wars that are waged against them as because of them.
From combating crime to the war on drugs, from civil wars to global wars and even culture wars, chronic failure has been harnessed to the appearance of success.
Rather, the proliferation of pseudo-wars has become a dangerous political habit and an endless source of political advantage and profit.
The authors show how the perverse outcomes we see in the fight against terror, migration, and drugs are more than a blip or an anomaly.
Why do politicians keep feeding the very crises they say they are combating? In Wreckonomics , Ruben Andersson and David Keen analyze why disastrous policies continue to live on when it has become apparent that they do not work.
And America\'s war on drugs has failed to dampen narcotics demand, while fueling atrocities and profiteering from Mexico to the Philippines.
The US and European countries also continually increase funding for their own border security, leading to more chaos and shifting the problem around.
The United States recently exited a two-decade long war in Afghanistan--part of its global war on terror--in ignominy, with the Taliban taking Kabul.
A powerful exposé of the war framework that governments around the world have adopted to tackle difficult problems yet which locks them into failed and cruel policies that never seem to end
