Subject(s): Social conflict -- Conflict management. -- Importance of conflict -- Social identity, inequality and conflict -- Complementarity between economic and military competition -- Targeting and political support for welfare spending -- Dictatorship -- Tax resistance, economy and state transformation in China and Europe -- Rationality of revolution -- optimal law enforcement when victims are rational players -- Property rights and evolution of the state -- Political economy of organized crime: Providing protection when the state does not -- Social decision rules are not immune to conflict