There are three types of societies ('orders'): the primitive order (small hunter-gatherer bands of 25-200 with little specialization or wealth accumulation), the limited access order or 'natural state' which solves violence through limited access, and the open access order.

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Barry Weingast

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there are three different types of societies which we call orders and the first is the primitive order

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Barry Weingast on Violence, Power and a Theory of Nearly Everything 8/13/2007EconTalk
Created: 6/13/2026, 7:04:08 PM

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