COOPERATION, CONFLICT AND POWER IN THE ABSENCE OF PROPERTY RIGHTS
研究无产权时,人们在生产与掠夺活动间权衡,发现冲突并非必然,合作可与支配共存,并探讨了权力与资源的关系及对产权演化的启示。
This paper examines interaction in the absence of property rights when agents face a trade-off between productive and coercive activities. In this setting, conflict is not the necessary outcome of one-time interaction and cooperation is consistent with domination of one agent over another. Other things being equal, an agent's power, a well-defined concept in this paper, is inversely related to an agent's resources when resources are valued according to marginal-productivity theory. Some implications for the evolution of property rights are drawn. The model is applicable to a variety of situations in which directly unproductive activities are prevalent. Copyright 1992 by American Economic Association.