Tullock Gordon

The social dilemma : of autocracy, revolution, coup d'etat, and war / Gordon Tullock ; edited and with an introd. by Charles K. Rowley. - Indianapolis : Liberty Fund, c2005. - xix, 383 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - The selected works of Gordon Tullock ; 8 . - Tullock, Gordon. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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War--Economic aspects
Dictatorship
Social choice
Rent Economic theory

HB195

330.9