The dark side of the force : economic foundations of conflict theory / Jack Hirshleifer.

Introduction, 1 -- 1. The Dark Side of the Force: Western Economic Association International 1993 Presidential Address, 7 -- Part one. Causes, consequences, and conduct of conflict, 25 -- 2. The Bioeconomic Causes of War, 25 -- 3. The Paradox of Power, 43 -- 4. Do the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Poorer? Experimental Tests of a Model of Power, 68 -- 5. Conflict and Rent-Seeking Success Functions: Ratio vs. Difference Models of Relative Success, 89 -- 6. Anarchy and Its Breakdown, 102 -- 7. Truth, Effort, and the Legal Battle / Coauthored with Evan Osborne, 131 -- 8. Are Equilibrium Strategies Unaffected by Incentives? / Coauthored with Eric Rasmusen, 164 -- Part two. Evolutionary approaches to conflict and its resolution, 183 -- 9. Evolutionary Models in Economics and Law: Cooperation versus Conflict Strategies, 183 -- 10. On the Emotions as Guarantors of Threats and Promises, 198 -- 11. What Strategies Can Support the Evolutionary Emergence of Cooperation? / Coauthored with Juan Carlos Martínez Coll, 220 -- 12. Selection, Mutation, and the Preservation of Diversity in Evolutionary Games / Coauthored with Juan Carlos Martínez Coll, 251 -- 13. There Are Many Evolutionary Pathways to Cooperation, 279 -- 14. The Expanding Domain of Economics, 306 -- Name Index, 343 -- Subject Index, 347.