Basically, the governments as well as laws, are devised to eliminate the transaction cost which obstructs efficient bargain between negotiating parties------as the normative Coase Theroem states.
Nevertheless, governments itself is an outcome of optimal choices for minimizing total social costs. Thus according to the Hobbe's viewpoints, structuring the governments and laws would also get bargains towards paretto equilibrium.
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