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#273 – Chris Blattman: War and Violence

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The Strategicly Wise Thing to Do Is Arm a Lot

From a perspective of the group threatening violence or actually doing violence is one way to make progress for your group. We have really limited abilities to like incentivize our enemies not to arm and to keep ourselves from arming we'd love to agree to just like both this arm but we can't. The threat of violence is costing nevertheless you've actually pulled up that now disappeared a paper that said the big title called civil war and your name was on it what's that about well that was I mean when he finished in graduate school and this was paper with my advisor at Ted Nigell at Berkeley most people don't know how much they're spending on arms right?

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