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Author North, Douglass C. (Douglass Cecil)

Title Violence and social orders : a conceptual framework for interpreting recorded human history / Douglass C. North, John Joseph Wallis, Barry R. Weingast
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009
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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 308 pages)
Contents The conceptual framework -- The natural state -- The natural state applied : English land law -- Open access orders -- The transition from limited to open access orders : the doorstep conditions -- The transition proper -- A new research agenda for the social sciences
Summary All societies must deal with the possibility of violence, and they do so in different ways. This study integrates the problem of violence into a larger social science and historical framework, showing how economic and political behavior are closely linked
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-294) and index
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Subject Violence -- Economic aspects -- History
State, The -- History
Social control -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Violence.
Aspects économiques.
Régulation sociale.
Histoire.
Social control
State, The
Violence -- Economic aspects
Gesellschaft
Gewalt
Sozialordnung
Soziale Norm -- Gewalt -- Geschichte.
Ordnung -- Gewalt -- Geschichte.
Gewalt -- Soziale Norm -- Geschichte.
Gewalt -- Ordnung -- Geschichte.
Gewalt -- Gesellschaft -- Geschichte.
Våld -- ekonomiska aspekter -- historia.
Ekonomi -- sociala aspekter.
Social kontrol -- historia.
Geschichte.
Politik.
Gewalt.
Politische Gewalt.
Wirtschaftstheorie.
Soziale Werte.
Soziale Kontrolle.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Wallis, John Joseph.
Weingast, Barry R
ISBN 9780511517839
0511517831
9780511517341
0511517343
0511575831
9780511575839