Does competition help co‐operation?
研究了印度西部糖业合作社在政治竞争驱动下实现经济成功的原因，挑战了传统合作理论与竞争理论，对理解政治与经济的互动有启发。
Co‐operative sugar factories in western India are economically successful even though rife with factional politics. Since they are not heavily subsidised, what makes them operate efficiently? Political competition between elected leaders of neighbouring factories drives them to compete economically. This in turn drives them to expand, innovate and diversify production. Nothing in the standard rhetoric of co‐operation explains this tendency toward competitive risk‐taking. Likewise, standard economic theories of competition overlook the political forces which drive these industrial leaders.