There have been governments which are between democracy and despotism. The article starts with a discussion of governments where voting is used, but not everyone can vote. This runs from the United States before 1960 to Venice. Undemocratic governments are sometimes simple despotisms, but in...

The hawk-dove equilibrium is a biological phenomenon in which birds with two different behavior patterns come into equilibrium with each other. The theme of this article is that similar equilibriums exist in many cases in the economic world. There are many different strategies for playing the...