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Friday, August 15, 2008

Alan Krueger on terrorism

from the Princeton website

http://uc.princeton.edu/main/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2722

"Many popular ideas about terrorists and why they seek to harm us are fuelled by falsehoods and misinformation. Leading politicians and scholars have argued that poverty and lack of education breed terrorism, despite the wealth of evidence showing that most terrorists come from middle-class, and often college-educated, backgrounds. In What Makes a Terrorist, Alan Krueger argues that if we are to correctly assess the root causes of terrorism, and successfully address the threat, we must think more like economists do."

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