The Economics of AQI’s Compensation

AQI’s financial ledgers provide a unique opportunity to analyze the economics of a contemporary militant group, focusing on individual compensation and on the relationship between the group’s expenditures and attacks. In this chapter, we measure the relative economic benefits of being an AQI member...

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Hauptverfasser:	Benjamin Bahney, Howard J. Shatz, Carroll Ganier, Renny McPherson, Barbara Sude
Format:	Buchkapitel
Sprache:	eng
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Zusammenfassung:	AQI’s financial ledgers provide a unique opportunity to analyze the economics of a contemporary militant group, focusing on individual compensation and on the relationship between the group’s expenditures and attacks. In this chapter, we measure the relative economic benefits of being an AQI member by comparing AQI members’ salaries to reported income levels of Anbari households from available survey data. We then compare the risk of death that prospective AQI members faced with the risk of death for members of the broader Anbari population to explore whether AQI’s compensation reflected this risk in a purely economic sense. In the next