The nature of market-preserving government

This paper offers a framework for understanding the origin of market-preserving government. The paper shows that when parties in a Hobbesian society end in an arms race rather than war, they can create a market-preserving government to maintain the no-war equilibrium at lower cost. The government ca...

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Main Author: Yi-Jiang Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2024-01-01
Series:Journal of Government and Economics
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667319324000351
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