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This work began back in the 1990s, when a seedy crime novel collided with a graduate seminar in evolutionary biology to generate an unusual set of research questions: Is racketeering an evolutionary stable strategy? Is the geographic inscription of protection rackets a phase of primary and secondary state formation? How do conflicts between rival racketeers shape longitudinal patterns of inequality, political stability, state formation and state failure?
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Hirschfeld, K. (2015). Darwinian Political Economy. In: Gangster States. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137490292_7
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