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SUMMARY:Wolfson (Ancient) Warfare Wednesdays — Greek Warfare and Economi
 cs - Dr Manu Dal Borgo (BA Postdoctoral Fellow\, University of Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Julian Siebert
DESCRIPTION:Warfare economics is fundamentally the study of the trade-off 
 between guns and butter and also between appropriation and production. In 
 economics the usual assumption is that property rights are perfect and cos
 tless. That is\, when people agree terms\, those terms are assumed to be c
 learly understood by all and that all parties fulfill their obligations wi
 thout fail. To reflect the realities of war\, in the emerging specialist f
 ield called the “economics of conflict”\, property rights are neither 
 perfectly nor costlessly enforced. These scholars employ game theory to un
 derstand how a state allocates resources in times of war. Each state’s l
 abour market allocation today from peacetime work to military service\, fo
 r example\, may determine tomorrow’s distribution of power from losers t
 o victors among warring states. It is power both commercial and political 
 which is the output of war.\n\nDrawing from their highly biased sources of
  data\, ancient historians traditionally cling to an anti-axiomatic approa
 ch to history. Generalisable historical scenarios are regarded with suspic
 ion and thus are rarely extracted from the archaeological and written evid
 ence. Manuela will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the economics o
 f conflict for the study of ancient Greek warfare using case studies from 
 the archaic to the classical period. \n\nRegister "here":https://wolfson-c
 am-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/9215911717003/WN_4jPWEfOYSBKW76pt91BLmw
LOCATION:Zoom webinar
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