State Capacity, Reciprocity, and the Social Contract

DOI10.3982/ECTA16863zbMath1466.91194MaRDI QIDQ4992125

Timothy Besley

Publication date: 7 June 2021

Published in: Econometrica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.3982/ecta16863

zbMATH Keywords

reciprocity; fiscal capacity; cultural dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

91B64: Macroeconomic theory (monetary models, models of taxation)

91B18: Public goods

91D10: Models of societies, social and urban evolution