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 / Erich Weede.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-194) and index.

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""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 East""""7-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""

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