Note to users. If you're seeing this message, it means that your browser cannot find this page's style/presentation instructions -- or possibly that you are using a browser that does not support current Web standards. Find out more about why this message is appearing, and what you can do to make your experience of our site the best it can be.

Science 14 December 2007:
Vol. 318. no. 5857, pp. 1726 - 1727
DOI: 10.1126/science.1151192
Prev | Table of Contents | Next

Books

POLITICAL ECONOMICS:
Why People Turn to Bombs

Ethan Bueno de Mesquita

What Makes a Terrorist
Economics and the Roots of Terrorism
by Alan B. Krueger
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2007. 192 pp. $24.95, £14.95. ISBN 9780691134383.
The author argues that terrorists are not drawn from the desperately poor but come from better-educated and well-off classes and wish to effect social and political change.
The reviewer is at the Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago, 1155 East 60th Street, Suite 108, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. E-mail: bdm{at}uchicago.edu

Read the Full Text

To Advertise     Find Products

Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)