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Gypsy law - Peter Leeson
Public Choice (2013) 155:273 292 DOI lawPeter T. LeesonReceived: 23 November 2012 / Accepted: 25 November 2012 / Published online: 7 December 2012 Springer Science+Business Media New York 2012 AbstractHow do the members of societies that can t use governmentorsimple ostracismproduce social order? To investigate this question I use economics to analyze Gypsy law leverages superstition to enforce desirable conduct in Gypsy societies wheregovernment is unavailable and simple ostracism is ineffective. According to Gypsy law, un-guarded contact with the lower half of the human body is ritually polluting, ritual defilementis physically contagious, and non-Gypsies are in an extreme state of such defilement.
274 Public Choice (2013) 155:273–292 to a norm against theft that group members enforce by boycotting individuals who steal (Leeson and Coyne 2012).
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