The Dark Side of the Force

The central tradition of mainline economics deals with one way of making a living; producing goods and services. But there is another way of getting ahead through conflict or the 'dark side', by appropriating what others have produced. Parallel to military aggression and resistance, the dark side includes non-military activities such as litigation, strikes and lockouts, takeover contests, and bureaucratic back-biting struggles. This volume brings the analysis of conflict into the mainstream of economics. Part I explores the causes, conduct, and consequences of conflict as an economic activity. Part II delves deeply into the evolutionary sources of our capacities, physical and mental, for both conflict and cooperation. The introductory chapter of the volume, which outlines the significance of the dark side, was the author's 1993 Presidential Address to the Western Economic Association. Other chapters investigate economic models, historical discussions, experimental tests, and applications to topics in political science and law.

ISBN 0521009170   Pages 366 ISBN13 9780521009171 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Cambridge University Press   Weight (grammes) 594 Imprint Cambridge University Press   Published in Cambridge Format Paperback   Height (mm) 228 Publication date 20 Sep 2001   Width (mm) 152 Library of Congress HB97.3 .H57 2001   Spine width (mm) 24 DEWEY 303.6   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC21

		Preface
		Introduction		1
1		The Dark Side of the Force: Western Economic Association International 1993 Presidential Address		7
Pt. 1		Causes, Consequences, and Conduct of Conflict
2		The Bioeconomic Causes of War		25
3		The Paradox of Power		43
4		Do the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Poorer? Experimental Tests of a Model of Power		68
5		Conflict and Rent-Seeking Success Functions: Ratio vs. Difference Models of Relative Success		89
6		Anarchy and Its Breakdown		102
7		Truth, Effort, and the Legal Battle by Evan Osborne		131
8		Are Equilibrium Strategies Unaffected by Incentives? by Eric Rasmusen		164
Pt. 2		Evolutionary Approaches to Conflict and its Resolution
9		Evolutionary Models in Economics and Law: Cooperation versus Conflict Strategies		183
10		On the Emotions as Guarantors of Threats and Promises		198
11		What Strategies Can Support the Evolutionary Emergence of Cooperation? by Jack Hirshleifer and Juan Carlos Martinez Coll		220
12		Selection, Mutation, and the Preservation of Diversity in Evolutionary Games by Jack Hirshleifer and Juan Carlos Martinez Coll		251
13		There Are Many Evolutionary Pathways to Cooperation		279
14		The Expanding Domain of Economics		306
		Name Index		343
		Subject Index		347

'... it is a very interesting collection ...'. Managerial and Decision Economics 'Cambridge University Press is to be congratulated on producing the volume just at the moment when considerations of conflict and the use of force are in the forefront of everyone's mind.' Journal of Economics

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