TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2006//
TI  - The stability of anarchy and breakdown of production
JO  - Defence and peace economics
A1  - Hausken, Kjell
SP  - 589
EP  - 603
VL  - 17
IS  - 6
N2  - In Hirshleifer's (1995) model for unitary actors, combined fighting/production abruptly breaks down when inter-group decisiveness of fighting is above a certain value (above one) or income requirements are not met. Accounting for the collective action problem, this article gives the opposite result that fighting/production is stable also for large decisiveness parameters (above one) and strict income requirements for each agent. The stable fighting/production equilibrium gets gradually easier to perturb off balance for high inter-group decisiveness, high costs of fighting, different fighting efficiencies, and equal group sizes. The equilibrium number of groups that can be sustained decreases in the inter-group decisiveness and increases in the cost of fighting.<p /> 
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SN  - 1024-2694
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10242690601025492
ID  - ref1
ER  -