Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History
- ISBN-10
- 0521761735
- ISBN-13
- 9780521761734
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 308
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-02-26
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Authors
- Barry R. Weingast, Douglass C. North, John Joseph Wallis
Description
This book integrates the problem of violence into a larger framework, showing how economic and political behavior are closely linked.
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