Violence and social orders
Subtitle: a conceptual framework for interpreting recorded human history
By: Douglass C. North, John Joseph Wallis, Barry R. Weingast.
Contributors: Wallis, John Joseph.; Weingast, Barry R.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780521761734
Subjects: Violence -- Economic aspects -- History; State, The -- History; Social control -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The conceptual framework; title: The natural state; title: The natural state applied : english land law; title: Open access orders; title: Explaining the transition from limited to open access orders : the doorstep conditions; title: The transition proper; title: A new research agenda for the social sciences.