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> I remember reading a non-mainstream economics paper in college that modeled the world not in terms of price equilibria or value-add, but assumed that all acto
by neuronexmachina 9y ago
> I remember reading a non-mainstream economics paper in college that modeled the world not in terms of price equilibria or value-add, but assumed that all actors were basically bandits who would try to take whatever they could by force or deceit.
If you can find the paper I'd love to see it.
- nostrademons 9y agoOoh, I think I got closer, though I still haven't found the exact paper. Search for the work of Mancur Olson. I think "Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development" was the paper, but I just got a JStor link, so I'm not sure it was exactly it.