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Random half-baked thought: A relatively standard train of economic thought is that rents exist because government policy allows rents to exist. But one could flip this argument on its head: perhaps one could argue that governments emerge due to the existence of rents to divide
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I guess city machine histories and Andrew Jackson era federal history might be a good start. Fukuyama’s Origins of Political Order/Political Order, Political Decay has good stuff on broad idea. It’s less a conceptual theory, more a historical understanding.
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