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Law without the State: Legal Attributes and the Coordination of Decentralized Collective Punishment
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Most social scientists take for granted that law is defined by the presence of a centralized authority capable of exacting coercive penalties for violations of legal rules. Moreover, the existing approach to analyzing law in economics and positive political theory works with a very thin concept of law that does not account for the distinctive attributes of legal order as compared with other forms of social order. Drawing on a model developed elsewhere, we reinterpret key case studies to demonstrate how a theoretically informed approach illuminates questions about the emergence, stability, and function of law in supporting economic and democratic growth.read more
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Institutional and Organizational Analysis
TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce the concepts and applications of institutional and organizational analysis using economic history, economics, law, and political science to inform its theoretical framework, and reveal the lessons to be learned from it for business, law and public policy.
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On Judicial Review in a Separation of Powers System
Tiberiu Dragu,Oliver Board +1 more
TL;DR: The authors analyzes the effect of judicial review on the policy-making process from an expertise perspective, and shows that the exercise of non-expert judicial review can induce more informed policies and that nonexpert courts have incentives to exercise judicial review in a manner consistent with institutional concerns for expertise.
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From Caesar to Tacitus: Changes in Early Germanic Governance Circa 50 BC-50 AD
TL;DR: In the subsequent century Germanic governance institutions changed in a number of ways as mentioned in this paper, such as temporary military commanders elected from the nobility gave way to standing retinues under the leadership of professional commanders and public assemblies met more frequently and regularly.
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Spurious normativity enhances learning of compliance and enforcement behavior in artificial agents
Raphael Köster,Dylan Hadfield-Menell,Richard Everett,Laura Weidinger,Gillian K. Hadfield,Joel Z. Leibo +5 more
TL;DR: Here, multiagent reinforcement learning is used to investigate the learning dynamics of enforcement and compliance behaviors, and it is demonstrated that normative behavior relies on a sequence of learned skills.
Taobao, Federalism, and the Emergence of Law, Chinese Style
Lizhi Liu,Barry R. Weingast +1 more
TL;DR: In contrast, the inchoate, variable, and sometimes corrupt nature of the Chinese legal system makes the prevention and resolution of legal problems much harder as discussed by the authors, making it much more difficult.
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Economy and society : an outline of interpretive sociology
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the economy and the Arena of Normative and De Facto Powers in the context of social norms and economic action in the social sciences, and propose several categories of economic action.
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Altruistic punishment in humans.
Ernst Fehr,Simon Gächter +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that negative emotions towards defectors are the proximate mechanism behind altruistic punishment and that cooperation flourishes if altruistic punishments are possible, and breaks down if it is ruled out.
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The Concept of Law
TL;DR: The Foundations of a Legal System as mentioned in this paper is an example of a legal system based on formalism and rule-scepticism, and it can be seen as a union of primary and secondary rules.
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Altruistic Punishment in Humans
Ernst Fehr,Simon Gaechter +1 more
TL;DR: It is shown experimentally that the altruistic punishment of defectors is a key motive for the explanation of cooperation, and that future study of the evolution of human cooperation should include a strong focus on explaining altruistic punished.