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Title
Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Recorded Human History Authors
Douglass C. North, John Joseph Wallis, Barry R. WeingastEditorial
Cambridge University Press Date of publication
2009
Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Recorded Human History
By Paul Atwell
Regarding its subtitle, “A Conceptual Framework for Recorded Human History”, North, Wallis, and Weingast’s Violence and Social Orders, aims high as it unearths a timeless model for the evolution of human societies. The authors ultimately identify a universal mechanism for the formation (and evolution) of societies, namely the need to resolve the endemic tendency of humans to compete for power through violent means. Using a wide sample of geographic histories and nuanced analysis, they have succeeded in creating a seminal contribution to state-building and development theory. To read more download the PDF.