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Violence and Social Orders

Douglass C. North, John J. Wallis, Barry R. Weingast

How have societies used control of politics and economics to contain violence, and how do some move toward open access?

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Douglass C. North, John J. Wallis, Barry R. Weingast

Why read it

  • You will understand how most societies keep the peace by letting a powerful elite share out land, jobs and privileges among themselves
  • You will stop taking the peace of rich democracies for granted, seeing it as something social science still struggles to explain
  • You will learn the two steps by which elites turn personal privileges into impersonal rights, first among themselves then for everyone

Who it is for

  • A student of development economics or political science
  • A reader asking why some countries stay poor and violent
  • Someone studying how elites share power

Contents

  1. VIOLENCE AND SOCIAL ORDERS
  2. Preface
  3. ONE The Conceptual Framework
  4. TWO The Natural State
  5. THREE The Natural State Applied
  6. FOUR Open Access Orders
  7. FIVE The Transition from Limited to Open Access Orders
  8. SIX The Transition Proper
  9. SEVEN A New Research Agenda for the Social Sciences

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