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Efficiency and Equity in Anarchy and Other Historical Social Systems: A Simple Exploratory Model

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  • Guido Candela
  • Roberto Cellini

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We propose a model where a two-person society is considered. We study the allocations generated by a system where life is organised on the basis of economic principles consistent with the ideas of the anarchist philosophers of the 19th and 20th centuries. The «anarchic model» turns out to be, in general, inefficient in terms of allocations, as opposed to the system generated by the capitalistic firms and by a «communist» organisation; on the other hand, in anarchy the equity principle, interpreted as symmetry in allocations, always obtains.

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  • Guido Candela & Roberto Cellini, 2011. "Efficiency and Equity in Anarchy and Other Historical Social Systems: A Simple Exploratory Model," Economia politica, Società editrice il Mulino, issue 1, pages 15-20.
    • Handle: RePEc:mul:jb33yl:doi:10.1428/34344:y:2011:i:1:p:15-20
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    1. Francesco Angelini & Guido Candela & Massimiliano Castellani, 2020. "Governance efficiency with and without government," Social Choice and Welfare, Springer;The Society for Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 54(1), pages 183-200, January.

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    Keywords

    B19; D29; D74; K11; P40;
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    JEL classification:

    • B19 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought through 1925 - - - Other
    • D29 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Other
    • D74 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances; Revolutions
    • K11 - Law and Economics - - Basic Areas of Law - - - Property Law
    • P40 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Other Economic Systems - - - General

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