Conflict and Governance
Economists and political scientists have recently begun to study formally how conftict and the possibility of conftict affects resource allocation and economic performance.! For example, an extensive empiricalliterature suggests that conftict and political instability adversely affects economic deve...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
2003, 2003
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2003 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- The wide importance of conflict
- Social identity, inequality and conflict
- Butter and guns: Complementarity between economic and military competition
- Targeting and political support for welfare spending
- How to understand, and deal with dictatorship: an economist’s view
- Tax resistance, economy and state transformation in China and Europe
- The rationality of revolution
- Optimal law enforcement when victims are rational players
- Property rights and the evolution of the state
- The political economy of organized crime: providing protection when the state does not
- Social decision rules are not immune to conflict