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

Robert Bates

Journal of Economic Literature, 2010, vol. 48, issue 3, 752-56

Abstract: 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.

JEL-codes: D72 N40 O10 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
Note: DOI: 10.1257/jel.48.3.752
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