SOCI 254 Lecture Notes - Escalator, Steven Pinker, Independent Community And Health Concern
23 Jan 2013
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State = monopoly on violence, can protect/aggress nation. States against nation = principle problem in many of poorest nats. Nat as nat-state has absentee on inclusion. To use the state for interest of self, fam, ethnic grp = value worth fighting for. Attempts to control state + have access to state"s resources + control of state = highest prize. Est rules of game to make ppl pay + $ goes to state (indirect taxes) State = freq highest concentration of econ power (at least in theory) State = provider of services, protector of public goods (private property rights) State can become exactly opposite mechanism extract resources fr/pop. Mod state = product of all of these tendencies. Impersonal rules limit power of gov + state elites. Even min social solidarity produces defences against bandits. Roving bandits leave little steal b/c no incentive to accumulate. Bandit rationality leads to more produc sys = combine security w/taxation.
