Paper
Benjamin Broman & Georg Vanberg: Feuding, arbitration, and the emergence of an independent judiciary
Anthropologists, historians, and political economists suggest that private violence—feuding—provides order and enforces agreements in the absence of a state. In their new paper, Benjamin Broman and NOUS member Georg Vanberg ground these accounts in a series of formal models that shows the relationship between feuding, informal arbitration, and formal judicial Read more…