The Narrow Corridor, States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty by Acemoglu, Daron -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Also by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Preface

Liberty All the Evil in the World The Gilgamesh Problem The Narrow Corridor to Liberty

Chapter 1: How Does History End?

A Coming Anarchy? The Article 15 State A Journey Through Dominance Warre and the Leviathan Shock and Awe Reeducation Through Labor The Janus-Faced Leviathan The Cage of Norms Beyond Hobbes Shackling the Texans The Shackled Leviathan Diversity, Not the End of History Brief Outline of the Rest of the Book

Chapter 2: The Red Queen

The Six Labors of Theseus Solon’s Shackles The Red Queen Effect How to Ostracize if You Must The Missing Rights Chiefs? What Chiefs? A Slippery Slope Staying Illegible The Narrow Corridor The Proof of the Pudding Shackling the Leviathan: Trust and Verify

Chapter 3: Will to Power

The Rise of a Prophet What’s Your Edge? The Horns of the Buffalo The Wrong Doer Who Knows No Law The Red-Mouthed Gun Breaking Taboos A Time of Troubles Why You Cannot Shackle the Will to Power

Chapter 4: Economics Outside the Corridor

The Ghost in the Granary No Place for Industry The Caged Economy Ibn Khaldun and the Cycle of Despotism Ibn Khaldun Discovers the Laffer Curve Janus-Faced Despotic Growth The Law of the Splintered Paddle A Shark Going Inland The Bird That Devours Others The Economics of the Rose Revolution Caged and Despotic Economics

Chapter 5: Allegory of Good Government

The Frescoes of Piazza Del Campo The Effects of Good Government How Saint Francis Got His Name The First Cat in the Canary Islands The Economy in the Corridor The Effects of Bad Government How Tortillas Were Invented

Chapter 6: The European Scissors

Europe Moves into the Corridor The Assembly Politics of the Long-Haired Kings The Other Blade Bringing the Two Blades Together Disunited Kingdom 1066 and All That The Red Queen Effect in Action: The Magna Carta The Grumbling Hive A Profusion of Parliaments From Thing to Althing: Europe Outside the Corridor The Dollar of the Middle Ages: The Byzantine Leviathan Moving on in the Corridor The Next Cage to Be Broken The Origins of the Industrial Revolution Why in Europe?

Chapter 7: Mandate of Heaven

Capsizing the Boat All-Under-Heaven The Rise and Fall, and Rise Again, of the Well-Field System Cutting the Queue Despotism on the Cheap A Dependent Society A Reversal of Chinese Fortune The Mandate of Marx Growth Under Moral Leadership Liberty with Chinese Characteristics

Chapter 8: Broken Red Queen

A Hate Story India in the Cage of Norms The Broken People Those Who Dominate The Caged Economy of Caste Ancient Republics Land of the Tamils From Gana-Sangha to Lok Sabha No Honor Among Varnas The Broken Red Queen

Chapter 9: Devil in the Details

European Diversity War Made the State, and the State Made War The Sort of State That War Made Freedom on the Heights Differences That Matter In the Lenin Shipyard The Un-Taming of the Russian Bear From Despotism to Disintegration Because We Have To Grounds for Divergence Repression on the Finca How History Matters

Chapter 10: What’s the Matter with Ferguson?

A Killing at Noon The Collateral Damage of American Exceptionalism What Bill of Rights? American Slavery, American Freedom The Circuitous Path of American State Building We Shall Overcome Life in the American Corridor Who Gets Their Kicks on Route 66? Why Can’t We Collect All the Signals All the Time? The Paradoxical American Leviathan

Chapter 11: The Paper Leviathan

Patients of the State Gnocchi in the Iron Cage Failing the Duck Test No Place for Roads The Orangutan in a Tuxedo Plowing the Sea Mississippi in Africa The Postcolonial World The Consequences of Paper Leviathans

Chapter 12: Wahhab’s Children

The Tactician’s Dream Domesticating the Ulama Intensifying the Cage of Norms The Untouchables of Saudi Arabia Nebuchadnezzar Rides Again The Seeds of 9/11

Chapter 13: Red Queen Out of Control

A Revolution of Destruction A Rainbow Coalition of the Discontented The Zero-Sum Red Queen Despotism from Below How the Red Queen Gets Out of Control How Much Land Does an Inquilino Need? For Whom the Bells Toll The Allure of Autocrats Who Likes Checks and Balances? Back into the Corridor? Danger on the Horizon

Chapter 14: Into the Corridor

Black Man’s Burden The Rainbow Coalition Doorways into the Corridor Building on the Iron Cage Black Turk, White Turk A Viagra Spring Taking the Orangutan Out of the Tuxedo The Shape of the Corridor A Different World? The Corridor Globalization Makes We Are All Hobbesians Now

Chapter 15: Living with the Leviathan

Hayek’s Mistake The Cow Trade The Leviathan vs. The Market Unshared Prosperity Wall Street Unhinged Supersized Firms Avoiding the Zero-Sum Red Queen Leviathan’s War on Terror Rights in Action: The Niemöller Principle

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