Logo
Munich Personal RePEc Archive

An anarchist’s reflection on the political economy of everyday life

Boettke, Peter (2011): An anarchist’s reflection on the political economy of everyday life. Forthcoming in: Review of Austrian Economics

[thumbnail of MPRA_paper_33067.pdf]
Preview
PDF
MPRA_paper_33067.pdf

Download (180kB) | Preview

Abstract

James Scott has written a detailed ethnography on the lives of the peoples of upland Southeast Asia who choose to escape oppressive government by living at the edge of their civilization. To the political economist the fascinating story told by Scott provides useful narratives in need of analytical exposition. There remains in this work a “plea for mechanism”; the mechanisms that enable social cooperation to emerge among individuals living outside the realm of state control. Social cooperation outside the formal rules of governance, nevertheless require “rules” of social intercourse, and techniques of “enforcement” to ensure the disciplining of opportunistic behavior.

Atom RSS 1.0 RSS 2.0

Contact us: mpra@ub.uni-muenchen.de

This repository has been built using EPrints software.

MPRA is a RePEc service hosted by Logo of the University Library LMU Munich.