TY  - BOOK
AU  - Boix,Carles
TI  - Political order and inequality: their foundations and their consequences for human welfare 
T2  - Cambridge studies in comparative politics
SN  - 1107089433
U1  - 320.1 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Bien común
KW  - Equidad
KW  - Estado
N1  - Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice; The terms of the debt -- 1. Tabula rasa -- 2. Political order -- 3. Technological progress -- 4. Warfare -- 5. Inequality -- 6. Modern breakthrough -- 7. Conclusions
N2  - ´The fundamental question of political theory, one which precedes all other questions about the nature of political life, is why there is a state at all. Is human cooperation feasible without a political authority enforcing it? Or do we need a state to live together? This question also reveals two further problems. If a state is necessary to establish order, how (and when) does it come into place? If it isn´t necessary, what are the consequences for the political status and economic welfare of its citizens? Combining a wealth of ethnographical materials, historical cases, and statistical analysis, this book describes the foundations of stateless societies, why and how states emerge, and the basis of political obligation. This book models the economic and political roots of inequality, describes the causes of the stagnation of the preindustrial world, and explores what led to the West´s prosperity of the past two centuries´--Descripción del editor
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