Link: David Friedman's Positive Account of Property Rights
post by Will_Newsome · 2011-09-12T05:25:52.536Z · LW · GW · Legacy · 1 commentshttp://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Property/Property.html
It's really good and not that long. Talks about how Schelling points bring humans out of the Hobbesian jungle. Also acts as introduction to Schelling points I suppose.
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comment by fubarobfusco · 2011-09-12T07:17:24.688Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
A great deal of this argument can be taken to support conservatism in the general sense of the word: retaining existing social norms rather than engineering new ones, merely because existing norms are the ones that people expect.