ORDERED ANARCHY, STATE, AND RENT-SEEKING: THE ICELANDIC COMMONWEALTH 930-1262
TABLE OF CONTENTS
David Friedman on Medieval Iceland
From the Book of the Settlement
James Buchanan on Constitutional Economics
Acknowledgements
Abstract
INTRODUCTION
1. CONSTITUTIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY AND HISTORICAL ANALYSIS
2. HISTORY OF THE ICELANDIC COMMONWEALTH
3. SPONTANEOUS AND DECENTRALIZED ORDERS
4. THE EMERGENCE OF SOCIAL ORDER IN THE ICELANDIC COMMONWEALTH
5. FROM A DECENTRALIZED ORDER TO MINIMAL STATES
6. THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF RENT-SEEKING AND THE END OF THE COMMONWEALTH
7. CONCLUSION
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