What Makes a Terrorist : : Economics and the Roots of Terrorism / / Alan B. Krueger.
Many popular ideas about terrorists and why they seek to harm us are fueled by falsehoods and misinformation. Leading politicians and scholars have argued that poverty and lack of education breed terrorism, despite the wealth of evidence showing that most terrorists come from middle-class, and often...
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