Gypsy law

Gypsy law
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吉普赛法

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2013
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P. Leeson
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不能使用政府或简单的排斥的社会成员如何产生社会秩序?为了探讨这个问题,我用经济学的方法来分析吉普赛法。吉普赛法律利用迷信在吉普赛社会中强制推行可取的行为,在那里政府是不可用的,简单的排斥是无效的。根据吉普赛法律,毫无防备地接触人体下半身是仪式上的污染,仪式上的玷污是身体上的传染,非吉普赛人处于这种玷污的极端状态。这些迷信弥补了吉普赛人简单排斥的漏洞,使他们能够在没有政府的情况下获得社会合作。吉普赛人的信仰体系是对他们在选择社会控制机制时所面临的约束的一种有效的制度性反应。
How do the members of societies that can’t use government or simple ostracism produce social order? To investigate this question I use economics to analyze Gypsy law. Gypsy law leverages superstition to enforce desirable conduct in Gypsy societies where government is unavailable and simple ostracism is ineffective. According to Gypsy law, unguarded contact with the lower half of the human body is ritually polluting, ritual defilement is physically contagious, and non-Gypsies are in an extreme state of such defilement. These superstitions repair holes in simple ostracism among Gypsies, enabling them to secure social cooperation without government. Gypsies’ belief system is an efficient institutional response to the constraints they face on their choice of mechanisms of social control.