John Joseph Wallis: 2 books

Book cover of Violence and Social Orders

Violence and Social Orders

A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History

by Douglass C. North, John Joseph Wallis, Barry R. Weingast
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2009

All societies must deal with the possibility of violence, and they do so in different ways. This book integrates the problem of violence into a larger social science and historical framework, showing how economic and political behavior are closely linked. Most societies, which we call natural states,...
Book cover of Zones of Control

Zones of Control

Perspectives on Wargaming

by Jon Peterson, John Curry, Tetsuya Nakamura
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016

Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts. Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game...
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