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