The Mismeasure of War
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 22, 2010
The main thesis of the HRS authors, Andrew Mack et al, is that “nationwide mortality rates actually fall during most wars” and that “today’s wars rarely kill enough people to reverse the decline in peacetime mortality that has been underway in the developing world for more than 30 years.” There are two problems with the authors’ reasoning.
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