Public choice economists began studying anarchy in the 1970s. Since then, the amount of
research on anarchy has burgeoned. This article surveys the important public choice …

We review the main economic models of war and conflict. These models vary in details, but
their implications are qualitatively consistent, highlighting key commonalities across a …

Many people believe that Somalia's economy has been in chaos since the collapse of its
national government in 1991. We take a comparative institutional approach to examine …

Much of the order that exists in the inmate social system is not the result of government
action. How do prisoners create order? Inmates use a combination of norms and …

This article reviews the recent experimental literature on conflict. Although the literature is
recent and small, it has already examined a great variety of topics—from the effects of …

Still in the early stages of development, conflict theory presents a growing interest in
understanding the economic costs and benefits of conflicts. In this book, Mehrdad Vahabi …

We introduce three extensions of the Hirshleifer–Skaperdas conflict game to study
experimentally the effects of post-conflict behavior and repeated interaction on the allocation …

Economists who adhere to the assumptions of homo economicus typically focus on altering
external constraints through laws or regulations as the means of eliminating bad behavior …

Should law be provided centrally by the state or by some other means? Even relatively
staunch advocates of competition such as Friedrich Hayek believe that the state must …

In this paper we use an experimental approach to investigate how linguistic conventions can
emerge in a society without explicit agreement. As a starting point we consider the signaling …