%0 Journal Article
%T Pushing the Prize Up, A Few Notes on Al-Qaeda's Reward Structure and the Choice of Casualties
%A Raul CAruso
%A Andra Locatelli
%J Crossroads
%D 2004
%I 
%X The article aims at suggesting possible conjectures on Al-Qaeda's logic and structure. Even if the organization's secrecy makes any empirical evidence difficult to find, some insight can be provided by economic theory of contests: in this terms, Al-Qaeda can be acknowledged like an agent rewarding a prize (membership) to its clients (cells and would-be cells). Although this principle makes the organization hardly visible and virtually impenetrable, we contend that in the long term such a logic is non-sustainable.
%K Terrorism
%K microeconomic theory
%K prize
%K contest
%U http://www.webasa.org/Pubblicazioni/Caruso_Locatelli_2004_2.pdf