By Peter Bernholz, Manfred E. Streit, Roland Vaubel
ISBN-10: 3642603246
ISBN-13: 9783642603242
ISBN-10: 3642643531
ISBN-13: 9783642643538
This quantity confronts an enormous historic speculation with empirical facts from chosen classes of historical past. The speculation in query states that festival between political and felony organizations in constructing ideas has been a vital situation for liberty, innovation and development within the historical past of mankind. it's as a result of Immanuel Kant, Edward Gibbon and Max Weber and has been revived and additional constructed via Nobel-Laureate Douglass C. North who contributes the 1st bankruptcy. the amount brings jointly political economists, historians and criminal students to debate the position of political festival within the upward thrust and decline of countries - either in concept and in a great number of case studies.
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Declining revenues and increasing fiscal costs posed an ever worsening dilemma for European princes. Custom and tradition set limits on the exactions they could obtain from lesser lords and, as the Magna Carta attests, a king who stepped across the boundary of accepted custom faced the possibility of revolt. The king's vassals were sometimes as powerful as he and in concert were more powerful. Moreover vassals could and did sometimes combine with foreign princes to overthrow the king; therefore increased taxation of vassals could place a Crown in jeopardy.
A modem tyrant, who should find no resistance in his own breast on in his people, would soon experience a gentle restraint from the example of his equals, the dread of present censure, the advice of his allies, and the apprehension of his enemies. The object of his displeasure, escaping from the narrow limits of his dominions, would easily obtain, in a happier climate, a secure refuge, a new fortune adequate to his merit, the freedom of complaint, and perhaps the means of revenge. But the empire of the Romans filled the world ...
In addition, Ie presupposes that the territories in question are open to factor movements, that some factors are sufficiently mobile and that the agents are motivated to incur information costs regarding decisions on institutional arbitrage and institutional change respectively. Their motivation is attributed to economic competition on the one hand and to competition for political rule on the other. Hence, Ie can also be described as a complex interplay of these two types of competition. At present, Ie is still far from being a mature theoretical concept.