Coordination, Cooperation, and Control The Evolution of Economic and Political Power

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1. Verfasser: Holcombe, Randall G. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cham Springer International Publishing AG 2020
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Intro
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Chapter 1: The Concept of Power
  • Types of Power
  • The Concept of Power
  • Institutions and Power
  • Consent Versus Coercion
  • Power and Persuasion
  • The Desire for Power
  • Coordination, Cooperation, and Control
  • Chapter 2: Political Power
  • The Hierarchy of Political Power
  • Political Power Is Segmented and Often Dispersed
  • Political Power Produces a Class-Based Society
  • Elites and Masses
  • Transaction Costs and Political Power
  • Military and Political Power
  • Religious Power
  • Coercion and Power
  • Propaganda and Patriotism
  • Can People Agree to Be Coerced?
  • Incentives Facing Those with Political Power
  • Political Power Resists Change
  • Chapter 3: Economic Power
  • Institutions That Protect Economic Power
  • Economic Power Versus Market Power
  • Economic Power in Neoclassical Economics
  • Economic Freedom and Economic Power
  • Economic Power and Persuasion
  • Incentives Facing Those with Economic Power
  • Creative Destruction
  • Welfare Economics
  • Market Failure
  • Inequality
  • Competition or Cooperation?
  • Factors of Production and Political Power
  • Institutions Define the Scope of Economic Power
  • Chapter 4: The Separation of Economic from Political Power
  • Political Power Is Hierarchical
  • Economic Power Is Egalitarian
  • Economic Progress
  • Political Power and Stability
  • When Economic and Political Power Are Combined
  • When Economic and Political Power Are Separated
  • The Knowledge Problem
  • Institutional Power and Personal Power
  • Political Confiscation of Economic Power
  • The Power Elite
  • Checks and Balances
  • The Problem with Democracy
  • Economic and Political Power
  • Chapter 5: Power in Pre-Agricultural Societies
  • Law and Order in Clan-Based Versus Larger Societies
  • Power in Clan-Based Societies
  • Premonetary Economies
  • Pooling Versus Reciprocity
  • Reciprocity and Power
  • The Role of Money
  • Property Rights, Money, and Economic Power
  • The Separation of Political and Economic Power
  • Power and Control in Pre-Agricultural Economies
  • Coordination in Pre-Agricultural Societies
  • Chapter 6: Power in Agrarian and Feudal Societies
  • Agriculture and the State
  • Political Power and the Agricultural Revolution
  • Military and Political Power
  • Power in Rome
  • Feudal Institutions
  • Religious Power
  • Cities and Commerce
  • Communism
  • Power and Land
  • Chapter 7: Institutions That Support Commerce and Industry
  • Labor, Land, Capital, Entrepreneurship, and Power
  • The Rise of Commercial Society
  • Commerce and Borders
  • Monetization and the Creation of Economic Power
  • Natural Factors That Influence Institutional Development
  • Finance and Development
  • Public Finance and Law
  • Political Power and Control
  • Chapter 8: Power in Commercial and Industrial Societies
  • Italian City-States
  • The Low Countries
  • Britain
  • Primitive Accumulation
  • Commerce and Industry
  • Chapter 9: Politics as a Vocation
  • Productivity and the Political Class
  • Commerce, Industry, and Power
  • The Separation of Political and Military Power
  • Plunder Versus Taxation and Regulation
  • The Evolution of Law
  • Justice Versus Order
  • Incumbent Advantages
  • Dimensions of Political Competition
  • The Evolution of Political Power
  • Chapter 10: The Social Contract
  • The Mythology of the Social Contract
  • Twentieth-Century Contractarians
  • Problems with the Theory
  • The Age of Reason and the Social Contract
  • Is the Stationary Bandit a Contractarian?
  • Measuring the Separation of Economic from Political Power
  • When Economic and Political Power Are Separated
  • The Fragile Social Contract
  • Chapter 11: Ideology, Politics, and Power
  • Enlightenment and the Erosion of Power
  • Enlightenment and Democracy
  • Two Views on Democracy
  • The Ideology of Democracy
  • The Ideology of Progressivism
  • Political Power and Progressive Democracy
  • Elites and Masses
  • Chapter 12: Clouds on the Horizon: The Recombination of Political and Economic Power
  • Economic Incentives to Use Political Power
  • Political Incentives to Use Economic Power
  • The Decline of Nations
  • Political Activity and Economic Power
  • Political Bargaining
  • Seize Economic Power, Or Cooperate with It?
  • Maintaining Separation
  • Chapter 13: Progress and Power
  • Looking Ahead: Prosperity or Calamity?
  • Control over Factors of Production
  • The Asian Century
  • Georgia, Venezuela, and Other Examples
  • Political Stability and Progress
  • The Division of Power
  • Concluding Remarks
  • References
  • Index