For those who are interested, Schelling's work was also foundational to David Friedman's (son of Milton) work on libertarian anarchist theory. From the conclus

For those who are interested, Schelling's work was also foundational to David Friedman's (son of Milton) work on libertarian anarchist theory. From the conclusion of http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Property/Property.html http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Property/Property.htm... "The central project of this essay has been to give an account of rights, especially property rights, that is both amoral and alegal—an account that would explain the sort of behavior we associate with rights even in a world lacking law, law enforcement, and feelings of moral obligation.[28] I have tried first to explain how, with no legal system to enforce contracts, it might still be possible to contract out of a Hobbesian state of nature, and then to show how the same analysis can be used to understand in what sense a civil order, such as our own society, is different from a Hobbesian state of nature. Having offered answers to those questions, I then tried to show how we might get from the state of nature to something like the present society, and to use the analysis to partially explain the puzzling similarity between actual rules, just rules, and efficient rules. If my analysis is correct, civil order is an elaborate Schelling point, maintained by the same forces that maintain simpler Schelling points in a state of nature. Property ownership[29] is alterable by contract because Schelling points are altered by the making of contracts. Legal rules are in large part a superstructure erected upon an underlying structure of self-enforcing rights."