A Review of Douglass C. North, John Joseph Wallis, and Barry R. Weingast'sViolence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History | Zendy

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A Review of Douglass C. North, John Joseph Wallis, and Barry R. Weingast'sViolence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History

Author(s) -

Robert Bates

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

journal of economic literature

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 11.771

H-Index - 160

eISSN - 1547-1101

pISSN - 0022-0515

DOI - 10.1257/jel.48.3.752

Subject(s) - prosperity , politics , order (exchange) , conceptual framework , sociology , social science , political science , economics , economic growth , law , finance

In Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History , Douglass C. North, John Joseph Wallis, and Barry R. Weingast probe the organizational foundations of development. Outlining the properties of the "natural" and "open entry" societies, they highlight as well the conditions under which societies can move from one to the other, thereby achieving political order and economic prosperity.

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