An anarchist’s reflection on the political economy of everyday life

Peter Boettke

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Abstract: James Scott has written a detailed ethnography on the lives of the peoples of upland Southeast Asia who choose to escape oppressive government by living at the edge of their civilization. To the political economist the fascinating story told by Scott provides useful narratives in need of analytical exposition. There remains in this work a “plea for mechanism”; the mechanisms that enable social cooperation to emerge among individuals living outside the realm of state control. Social cooperation outside the formal rules of governance, nevertheless require “rules” of social intercourse, and techniques of “enforcement” to ensure the disciplining of opportunistic behavior.

Keywords: economic development; self-regulation; political economy; peasant economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O17 P48 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-evo, nep-hme, nep-hpe, nep-reg and nep-sea
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