Social Dilemma: Of Autocracy, Revolution, Coup d'Etat & War (Selected Works of Gordon Tullock)

by Charles K Rowley

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Volume 8 in "The Selected Works of Gordon Tullock" draws from two highly acclaimed and path-breaking books by Gordon Tullock, The Social Dilemma (1974) and Autocracy (1987). In this work, Tullock explores political market behaviour that is based on conflict rather than on bargaining and thus behaviour that results in wealth reduction rather than in gains from trade. "The Social Dilemma: The Economics of War and Revolution" was written in response to the tumultuous events of the 1960s and 1970s. Specifically, after the constitutional crisis caused by the Watergate scandal, Tullock acknowledged the Hobbesian nature of democracy. He posed...Read more
  • ISBN10 0865975388
  • ISBN13 9780865975385
  • Publish Date 1 December 2005
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Liberty Fund Inc
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 402
  • Language English