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2010-09-01

Racionalidad económica y terrorismo: una fórmula explosiva

Rationality Economic and Terrorism

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Racionalidad, terrorismo, economía (es)
Rationality, terrorism, economy (en)

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  • Christopher Cramer School of Oriental and African Studies
Este documento trata más de la economía como ciencia social que del terrorismo. El argumento princi pal es el siguiente: había una vez una criatura llamada homo economicus que fue a la guerra pero se disparó a sí misma en el pie. En otras palabras, la extensión de la economía neoclásica para explicar las causas de las guerras civiles no ha sido realmente exitosa en términos teóricos y empíricos. Así pues, al regresar herido y con sed de venganza del frente de batalla, el homo economicus sopesó los costos y beneficios del conflicto versus la cooperación, calculó las consecuencias, realizó algún entrenamiento en psicología conductual, e hizo la elección racional de emplear el terrorismo, pero accidentalmente se hizo volar en pedazos. En efecto, las explicaciones económicas neoclásicas del terrorismo son muy interesantes, en algunas formas lo son más que aquellas que explican la guerra civil, pero se derrotan a sí mismas en sus esfuerzos y revelan las debilidades de la economía neoclásica como base para la ciencia social.
This paper is more about economics as social science than about terrorism. The main argument is as follows. Once upon a time a creature called homo economicus went to war but shot himself in the foot (Cramer, 2002). In other words, the extension of neoclassical economics to 'explain' the causes of civil wars has thus far not been a great success in either theoretical or empirical terms. Then, returning wounded and vengeful from the front, homo economicus weighed up the costs and benefits of conflict versus cooperation, assessed the constraints, underwent some training in behavioural psychology, and made the rational choice to engage in terrorism, but she blew herself up accidentally. In other words, neo-classical economic explanations of terrorism are very interesting, in some ways more so than those explaining civil war, but they are selfdefeating in their efforts and they reveal the weaknesses of neo-classical economics as a foundation for social science.

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