Violence and Social Orders - Douglass C. North, John Joseph Wallis, Barry R. Weingast

Violence and Social Orders

A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History
Buch | Hardcover
346 Seiten
2009
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-76173-4 (ISBN)
99,75 inkl. MwSt
This book integrates violence into a larger framework, showing how economic and political behavior are closely linked. In most societies, which we call natural states, the polity limits violence by manipulating the economy, creating privileges. In contrast, modern societies create open access to economic and political organizations, fostering political and economic competition.
All societies must deal with the possibility of violence, and they do so in different ways. This book integrates the problem of violence into a larger social science and historical framework, showing how economic and political behavior are closely linked. Most societies, which we call natural states, limit violence by political manipulation of the economy to create privileged interests. These privileges limit the use of violence by powerful individuals, but doing so hinders both economic and political development. In contrast, modern societies create open access to economic and political organizations, fostering political and economic competition. The book provides a framework for understanding the two types of social orders, why open access societies are both politically and economically more developed, and how some 25 countries have made the transition between the two types.

Douglass C. North is co-recipient of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science. He is Spencer T. Olin Professor in Arts and Sciences at Washington University, St Louis and Bartlett Burnap Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. John Joseph Wallis is Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Barry R. Weingast is Ward C. Krebs Family Professor in the Department of Political Science and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

Preface; 1. The conceptual framework; 2. The natural state; 3. The natural state applied: English land law; 4. Open access orders; 5. Explaining the transition from limited to open access orders: the doorstep conditions; 6. The transition proper; 7. A new research agenda for the social sciences; Afterword.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 26.2.2009
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 160 x 235 mm
Gewicht 570 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Allgemeines / Lexika
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10 0-521-76173-5 / 0521761735
ISBN-13 978-0-521-76173-4 / 9780521761734
Zustand Neuware
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