Title: Violence and social orders : a conceptual framework for interpreting recorded human history : implications for economic development

Authors: North, Douglass C. and Wallis, John Joseph and Weingast, Barry R.

Place: Stanford, CA

Publisher: Stanford university. Stanford center for international development (SCID)

Year: 2009

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Subject: Rural Decentralization and Local Governance

Keywords: equal opportunity, social development, elite, corrupt practices, political aspects, developed countries, public services, social history, economic development, developing countries, competition

Abstract: This framework for understanding political, economic, and social systems in human history, which is thought to culminate in competitive, open access orders with rich civil society and the impersonal provision of public goods, also explains privileges and rent creation in so-called natural states.

URL: http://scid.stanford.edu/system/files/shared/people/BWeingast_11-10.pdf

Document type: Portal