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My second book, The Political Economy of Collective Action, Inequality, and Development (Stanford U. Press, May 2020), is a sequel to my first book, Collective Action and Exchange: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Contemporary Political Economy (Stanford U Press, 2013). The first book begins with micro-foundations by considering both first- and second- order collective-action problems, along with power, social preferences, and bounded rationality. It proceeds to informal and formal institutions, self-governance, and interactions with 3rd party enforcement before moving to policy, social networks and finally knowledge, institutions, location and growth. The second book relates prospects for political and economic development (using a capability approach) to relationships between distributions of power, institutions, and context-specific developmental collective-action problems.
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