TY - BOOK AU - Tullock,Gordon AU - Rowley,Charles Kershaw TI - The social dilemma: of autocracy, revolution, coup d'etat, and war T2 - The selected works of Gordon Tullock SN - 0865975272 (hbk.) : AV - HB195 .T84 2005 U1 - 330.9 22 PY - 2005/// CY - Indianapolis, Ind., [Lancaster PB - Liberty Fund, Gazelle Drake Academic, distributor] KW - War KW - Economic aspects KW - Dictatorship KW - Social choice KW - Rent (Economic theory) N1 - Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction / by Charles K. Rowley. 1. The roots of the social dilemma. The roots of conflict ; The cooperative state ; The exploitative state -- 2. The goals and organizational forms of autocracies. The uses of dictatorship ; Becoming a dictator ; The problem of succession ; Democracy and despotism ; Monarchies, hereditary and nonhereditary -- 3. Revolution and its suppression. Revolution and welfare economics ; The paradox of revolution ; The economics of repression ; "Popular" risings ; Legitimacy and ethics -- 4. The coup d'etat and its suppression. Coup d'etat : structural factors ; The theory of the coup ; Coups and their prevention -- 5. The economics of war. International conflict : two parties -- Agreement and cheating ; Three or more countries and the balance of power -- Epilogue ER -