| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w24681 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 24681 |
| A Theory of Equality Before the Law | |
| Daron Acemoglu; Alexander Wolitzky | |
| 发表日期 | 2018-06-11 |
| 出版年 | 2018 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We propose a model of the emergence of equality before the law. A society can support “effort” (“cooperation”, “pro-social behavior”) using the “carrot” of future cooperation or the “stick” of coercive punishment. Community enforcement relies only on the carrot and involves low coercion, low inequality, and low effort. A society in which the elite control the means of violence supplements the carrot with the stick, and involves high coercion, high inequality, and high effort. In this regime, elites are privileged: they are not subject to the same coercive punishments as non-elites. We show that it may be optimal—even from the viewpoint of the elite—to establish equality before the law, where all agents are subject to the same coercive punishments. The central mechanism is that equality before the law increases elites’ effort, which in turn encourages even higher effort from non-elites. Equality before the law combines high coercion and low inequality—in our baseline model, elites exert the same level of effort as non-elites. Factors that make the emergence of equality before the law more likely include limits on the extent of coercion, greater marginal returns to effort, increases in the size of the elite group, greater political power for non-elites, and under some additional conditions, lower economic inequality. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Game Theory ; Other ; Law and Economics ; Economic Systems |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w24681 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/582354 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Daron Acemoglu,Alexander Wolitzky. A Theory of Equality Before the Law. 2018. |
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