Strulik, Holger - Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet - 2005
resource appropriation contest. It is shown that conflict prevents investment and growth in a society of symmetric groups. In a … society at peace economic growth may occur. Growth, however, is decreasing in the degree of social fractionalization and … rebelridden economy either stagnates or grows at a low rate. Growth is decreasing in the size of the predatory minority and its …