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Mass Atrocities and Their Prevention

By Charles H. Anderton and Jurgen Brauer

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2021

Counting conservatively, data show about 100 million mass atrocity-related deaths since 1900. A distinct empirical phenomenon, mass atrocities are events of enormous scale, severity, and brutality, occur in wartime and in peacetime, are geographically w...

The Human Tide: A Review Essay

By Timothy W. Guinnane

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2021

The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World, by Paul Morland, argues for the importance of demography in both historical events and our current situation. Intended for a general audience, the book traces demographic developments from...