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Preface | |
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Metatheory: Explanation in Social Science | |
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Explanation of the Behavior of Social Systems | |
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Components of the Theory | |
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Conceptions of the Relations between Micro and Macro Levels | |
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Elementary Actions and Relations | |
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Actors and Resources, Interest and Control | |
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The Elements Structures of Action | |
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Social Exchange Simple and Complex Relations | |
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Rights to Act What Are Rights? | |
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How the Free-Rider Problem Is Reduced for Rights | |
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How Does New Information Bring | |
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About a Change in the Allocation of Rights? | |
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How Does a Right Change Hands? | |
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Who Are the Relevant Others? | |
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How Are Rights Partitioned, and How Might They Be? | |
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Authority Relations | |
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The Right to Control One's Own Actions | |
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Vesting of Authority Conjoint and Disjoint | |
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Authority Relations | |
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Transfer of One Right or Two: Simple and Complex | |
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Authority Relations | |
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Limitations on Authority | |
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Slavery Authority without Intentional Exercise | |
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Relations of Trust | |
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The Placement of Trust | |
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Actions of the Trustee Multiple Trustors and Public-Goods Problems | |
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Structures of Action | |
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Systems of Social Exchange What Is Money? | |
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Media of Exchange in Social and Political Systems | |
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Exchanges within Systems | |
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From Authority Relations to Authority Systems | |
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The Law of Agency | |
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Sympathy and Identification: Affine Agents Simple and Complex Authority Structures | |
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The Internal Morality of an Authority System | |
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Systems of Trust and Their Dynamic Properties | |
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Mutual Trust Intermediaries in Trust Third-Party | |
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Trust Large Systems Involving Trust | |
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Collective Behavior | |
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General Properties of Collective Behavior | |
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Escape Panics | |
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Bank and Stock Market Panics | |
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Acquisitive Crazes Contagious | |
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Beliefs | |
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Hostile and Expressive Crowds | |
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Fads and Fashions | |
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Influence Processes in Purchasing | |
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Decisions, Voting, and Public Opinion | |
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Specific Predictions about Collective Behavior | |
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The Demand for Effective Norms | |
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Examples of Norms and Sanctions | |
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Distinctions among Norms | |
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The First Condition: Externalities of Actions and the Demand for a Norm | |
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What Constitutes Social Efficiency? | |
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Systems of Norms | |
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The Realization of Effective Norms | |
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An Action-Rights | |
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Bank Social Relationships in Support of Sanctions | |
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Free Riding and Zeal | |
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Heroic versus | |
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Incremental Sanctioning | |
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How Are Sanctions Applied in Society? | |
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Emergence of Norms about Voting | |
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Internalization of Norms | |
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Social Capital Human Capital and Social Capital | |
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Forms of Social Capital Relative | |
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Quantities of Social Capital | |
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The Public-Good Aspect of Social Capital | |
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The Creation, Maintenance, and Destruction of Social Capital | |
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Corporate Action | |
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Constitutions and the Construction of Corporate | |
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Actors | |
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Norms and Constitutions | |
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Positive Social Theory Change in a Disjoint | |
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Constitution: American High Schools | |
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An Optimal Constitution | |
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Who Are the Elementary Actors? | |
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The Problem of Social | |
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Choice Partitioning of Rights to Indivisible Goods | |
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Constitutional Issues in Partitioning | |
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Rights to Control Corporate Actions | |