a ISBN 0-86597-527-2

a ISBN 0-86597-538-8

a Original cataloging agency NEU GrandLibrary

a Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng

a Classification number HB195

b Item number .T84 2005

a Dewey Classification 330.9

a Personal name Tullock Gordon

a Title The social dilemma :

b Remainder of title of autocracy, revolution, coup d'etat, and war /

c Statement of responsibility, etc Gordon Tullock ; edited and with an introd. by Charles K. Rowley.

h Medium BOOK

a Place of publication, distribution, etc Indianapolis :

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc Liberty Fund,

c Date of publication, distribution, etc c2005.

a Extent xix, 383 p. :

b Other physical details ill. ;

c Dimensions 23 cm.

a Series statement The selected works of Gordon Tullock ;

v Volume number/sequential designation 8

a Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references and index.

a Formatted contents note Introduction / by Charles K. Rowley. 1. The roots of the social dilemma. The roots of conflict ; The cooperative state ; The exploitative state -- 2. The goals and organizational forms of autocracies. The uses of dictatorship ; Becoming a dictator ; The problem of succession ; Democracy and despotism ; Monarchies, hereditary and nonhereditary -- 3. Revolution and its suppression. Revolution and welfare economics ; The paradox of revolution ; The economics of repression ; "Popular" risings ; Legitimacy and ethics -- 4. The coup d'etat and its suppression. Coup d'etat : structural factors ; The theory of the coup ; Coups and their prevention -- 5. The economics of war. International conflict : two parties -- Agreement and cheating ; Three or more countries and the balance of power -- Epilogue.

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element War

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Dictatorship

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Social choice

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Rent Economic theory

a Personal name Rowley Charles Kershaw