In Wreckonomics Ruben Andersson and David Keen analyze why policies continue to live on when
it has become apparent that they do not work. They show how the perverse outcomes we see in the
fight against terror migration and drugs are part of the proliferation of pseudo-wars that
have become a dangerous political habit and an endless source of profit. Covering a range of
cases around the world the authors expose and interrogate the incentive systems that allow
destructive and failed policies to remain in effect. They also develop strategies to
collectively dismantle the addiction to waging war on everything.
