Coordination, Cooperation, and Control: The Evolution of Economic and Political Power

by Randall G. Holcombe

Book Overview

There are two ways people coordinate their actions: through cooperation, exercised by economic power, and through control, exercised by political power. When economic and political power are held by the same people, the result is stagnation; when those who hold economic power are not the same people who hold political power, the result is progress. This book presents the ways in which economic power and political power can be separated, and how they...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030486664
• ISBN13: 9783030486662
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"