1 论文标题
Yijiang Wang War, Peace, and the Making of the State A Theory of Social Order
2 作者信息
王一江，长江商学院教授，yjwang@ckgsb.edu.cn
3 出处和链接（比如，NBER working paper No.11000）
First version: May 2017. SSRN posting: October, 2017. This version: April, 2018.
4 摘要Two players in the modeled primitive society independently decide whether or notto arm and fight each other for distributive gains. Wealth and technology levels determine the
balance of force and whether the society is in Rousseau’ s Garden of Eden, the Hobbesian war,
or an arms race. Wealth and technology levels also determine whether the state emerges by
force with concentrated power and wealth, or by agreement with shared power and wealth.
Under certain conditions, the players are better off having a predatory state than contesting
each other. The theory has important empirical and policy implications.