Economic development, social order, and world politics : with special emphasis on war, freedom, the rise and decline of the West, and the future of East Asia /
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Boulder :
L. Rienner Publishers,
1996.
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Table of Contents:
- Book Title
- Contents
- Preface
- 1-Introduction: A Systematic Agenda
- 2-Rational Choices and Responsible Decisionmaking
- 1. Rational Action by Individuals
- 2. The Marvel of the Market and Social Capital
- 3. Group Decisions and Government
- 3-Collective Action, Government, and Property Rights
- 1. Collective Action, Public Goods, and Positional Goods
- 2. Government and Property Rights
- 3. Escaping from Competition and Rent-Seeking
- 4-Disunity, Law, and Liberty: The Rise of the West Compared with Stagnation in the Great Asian Civilizations into the Nineteenth Century 1. The European Miracle, or the Rise of the West
- 2. War, Capitalism, and Democracy
- 3. The Great Asian Civilizations
- 5-Why People Stay Poor Elsewhere
- 1. Is Dependency the Answer?
- 2. Kleptocracy and Rent-Seeking at Home
- 3. Rent-Seeking and International Relations
- 6-The West in Decline and the Rise of East Asia
- 1. Distributional Coalitions and the Welfare State in the West
- 2. National Purpose and Competition in the East7-War and Peace in the Contemporary World
- 1. National Decisionmaking Under Systemic Constraints
- 2. Patterns of International Conflict During the Cold War and the Contemporary Challenge
- 8-Conclusions: Distributional Coalitions and Rent-Seeking as a Threat to Prosperity and Peace
- 1. A Look Back at Cold War Problems
- 2. Peace by Trade and Democratization?
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Book
