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Title : Violence and Social Orders
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The problem of social order is often approached as a problem of credible commitment between a protector, i.e. the state, and a group of citizens. What happens to this analysis when we consider that the protectors are always a group, never an individual, and ask how the organization of violence within the coalition of protectors affects how societies work? The answers give us a new perspective on the problems of economic development and suggest a new way to think about how modern societies emerged two hundred years ago.
Bibliographical references :
Douglass North, John Wallis, and Barry Weingast, Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
North, Wallis, and Weingast, “Violence and the Rise of Open-Access Orders.” Journal of Democracy, 20(1), January 2009, pp. 55-68.
North, Wallis, Webb, and Weingast. “Limited Access Orders: Rethinking the Problems of Development and Violence.” Manuscript, 2009.
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