"To create the networks that we affirm we'd have to have in legal economy is going to require substitutes for the ways that people would normally inter act," he says. "And so these organizations that are violent, doing illegal things, and sometimes offering an ideology or a salvation a theme alongside all that ... It's just a way that an entraprener at the of this organization can, can have great success."
Economist and author Gary Shiffman of Georgetown University talks about his book, The Economics of Violence, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Shiffman argues that we should view terrorism, insurgency, and crime as being less about ideology and more about personal expression and entrepreneurship. He argues that approaching these problems as economists gives us better tools for fighting them.