""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I. Shasta County""; ""1. Shasta County and Its Cattle Industry""; ""2. The Politics of Cattle Trespass""; ""3. The Resolution of Cattle-Trespass Disputes""; ""4. Who Pays for Boundary Fences?""; ""5. Disputes Arising out of Highway Collisions Involving Livestock""; ""6. The Effects of Closed-Range Ordinances""; ""Part II. A Theory of Norms""; ""7. The System of Social Control""; ""8. Shortcomings of Current Theories of Social Control""; ""9. The Puzzle of Cooperation""; ""10. A Hypothesis of Welfare-Maximizing Norms""
""11. Substantive Norms: Of Bees, Cattle, and Whales""""12. Remedial Norms: Of Carrots and Sticks""; ""13. Procedural and Constitutive Norms: Of Gossip, Ritual, and Hero Worship""; ""14. Controller-Selecting Norms: Of Contracts, Custom, and Photocopies""; ""Part III. The Future of Norms""; ""15. Testing the Content of Norms""; ""16. Conclusions and Implications""; ""Appendix. Research Methods""; ""Index""
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Integrating the current research in law, economics, sociology, game theory and anthropology, this text demonstrates that people largely govern themselves by means of informal rules - social norms - without the need for a state or other central co-ordinator to lay down the law.