Boycotting a dictatorship: who does it really hurt?

Consumer boycotts and international economic sanctions represent a frequent tool to protest against countries for their violation of human rights. This paper questions if such a kind of action hurts more the populations it is supposed to defend than governing classes it is targeting. Overall, boycotts of more rapacious regimes may decrease more the well-being of the population than the one of the governing class.

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Year of publication:	2009
Authors:	Delacote, Philippe
Published in:	Economics Bulletin. - AccessEcon, ISSN 1545-2921. - Vol. 29.2009, 3, p. 1856-1862
Publisher:	AccessEcon
Subject:	consumer boycott \| dictatorial regimes

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Extent:	application/pdf
Type of publication:	Article
Language:	English
Classification:	D6 - Welfare Economics ; F5 - International Relations and International Political Economy
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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