The fact that governments are useful to the inhabitants of their territory is a purely secondary and emergent property. They need to be useful, because a government that does not provide at least basic security will not find itself with any rents to collect.


"Democracy as an adaptive fiction" (July 30, 2007).


The fact that governments are useful to the inhabitants of their territory is a purely secondary and emergent property. They need to be useful,...

The fact that governments are useful to the inhabitants of their territory is a purely secondary and emergent property. They need to be useful,...

The fact that governments are useful to the inhabitants of their territory is a purely secondary and emergent property. They need to be useful,...

The fact that governments are useful to the inhabitants of their territory is a purely secondary and emergent property. They need to be useful,...