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The state's ability to prevent private fighting by courts, police, and legal order.
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monopoly on violence
The state's ability to prevent private fighting by courts, police, and legal order.
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The early imperial bureaucracy produces peace and prosperity by monopolizing violence, creating legal predictability, enabling contracts, and increasing trade.
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"...money because you have a legal system. You have a monopoly on violence. Monopoly on violence just means that these neighbors don't fight anymore...."
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Byzantium survives for a thousand years because it solves Rome's political problem.
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