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As in virtually all others.
The goal of many of these conflagrations was to capture, not kill, the other tribe’s women.
States Hayek (1944, p. 112): “Nothing distinguishes more clearly conditions in a free country from those in a country under arbitrary government than the observance in the former of the great principles known as the Rule of Law. Stripped of all technicalities, this means that government in all its actions is bound by rules fixed and announced beforehand—rules which make it possible to foresee with fair certainty how the authority will use its coercive powers in given circumstances and to plan one’s individual affairs on the basis of this knowledge.”
Yes, of course, there is the “perfect competition” of traditional economists (for a critique see Barnett, 2005). But this is typically a heuristic device, a model that neoclassical economists (mistakenly) use to simplify the real world. None would concur with the idea that New Guineans would develop economies similar to that of Europeans, even under conditions specified by Wade.
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Block, W.E. Nicholas Wade: A troublesome inheritance: Genes, race and human history. J Bioecon 17, 313–319 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10818-015-9202-7
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