ABSTRACT

The Unabomber, Theordore Kaczynski, would disappear for long stretches of time. The Red Army Faction (RAF) in Germany found itself competing for attention with rival groups such as the 2nd of June Movement. And airplane hijackings in the United States surged and then suddenly dissipated in the 1960s and 1970s. A mixture of orthodox and behavioural economics can help us think more deeply about the decisions that produced these patterns.