Homogenous Social Groups

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/5645
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Type:	Working Paper
Author:	Backhaus, Jürgen
Date:	1977
Agency:	Fachberich Wirtschaftswissenschaften Universitat Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
Series:	Diskussionsbeitrage, nr. 100
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/5645
Sector:	Social Organization
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Subject(s):	institutional analysis--theory state and local governance--theory decision making--theory
Abstract:	"In this paper, I tentatively analyze the impact of Homogeneity of groups on both the structures and relationships in which transactions take place. More specifically, the concept of homogeneity contains a set of conditions which describe properties of institutional relationships which reduce the cost of transactions among group members. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the concept of homogeneity so as to give a coherent economic interpretation to apparently contradictory phenomena such as the evolution of a legal system and the emergence of mafia-type organization."

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