This paper analyzes how British colonial rule altered the club-like and competitive features
of chiefdoms and weakened the incentives of political leaders to be accountable to citizens …

Policing in America has made a drastic transformation over the midtwentieth century. Local
police agencies today are more federally funded, they" dress" like the military, they police …

In this paper we develop a perspective on systems for interaction organised by blockchains
which makes use of evolutionary-institutional and psychological economics to reveal the …

This paper addresses how a Leviathan government taxes income if the earning potential is
private information. This complements the normative analyses in the tradition of Mirrlees …

In the early years of the new millennium, African countries long starved of development
finance found a new partner in China, with many governments eager to procure readily …