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Why War Zones Love Monopolies
Macartan Humphre ys has a gig teaching game theory at
Columbia University, but you re just as likely to find him in a
L104 dingy drinking hole in Sierra Leone, or Colombia, or any
num ber of other war-ravaged nations, scribbling notes while
listening to rebel leaders and financiers tell their tales. What I
do is often the nearest thing to market research in these
places, says the 32-year-old Irishman, who studies the impact
of war on local economies. one of his theories: In war zo nes
marketplace collusion among factions often reduces violence a-
gainst civilians and boosts economic returns. In peacetime en
forcing competition is good for economies, he says,"but in
wartime collaboration often works better
Like a growing number of political scientists and econo
mists who work at the intersection of war and economics
Humphreys has focused lately on Iraq and Afghanistan. Those
conflicts are in many ways unique, he says: They have ele
ments of colonial occupations, civil wars, and failed states
Iraq s once-restricted retail sector has exploded with competition
since the fall of Saddam Hussein, says Humphreys, and consumers