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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 | |