titling should proceed with caution is seemingly straightforward, the literature on legal titling does not take anarchy … anarchy” to legal titling in Afghanistan. Original fieldwork evidence from rural Afghanistan suggests that anarchy of land …

How do the members of societies that can’t use government or simple ostracism produce social order? To investigate this … where government is unavailable and simple ostracism is ineffective. According to Gypsy law, unguarded contact with the … social cooperation without government. Gypsies’ belief system is an efficient institutional response to the constraints they …

Can anarchy be efficient? This paper argues that for reasons of efficiency, rational, wealth-maximizing agents may … actually choose statelessness over government in some cases. Where markets are sufficiently thin or where government is … prohibitively costly, anarchy is the efficient mode of social organization. If total social wealth under conditions of relatively …