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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext This book integrates the problem of violence into a larger social science and historical framework! showing how economic and political behavior are closely linked. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.
