Questions for: Social Distance and Self-Enforcing Exchange

1. What is the difference between bilateral-punishment strategies and multilateral-punishment strategies?
2. How does Peter Leeson define social distance?
3. What is the defining characteristic that Peter Leeson uses to separate cheaters from cooperators?
4. Why is multilateral-punishment an ineffective way to ensure cooperation in large heterogeneous population groups?
5. What does Peter Leeson's solution to ensure cooperation in large heterogeneous groups? Illustrate your explanation with a specific example from the chapter or other.

Questions for : The Laws of Lawlessness

1. In "Laws of Lawlessness," what is the problem that Peter Leeson is trying to address?
2. What is the Anglo-Scottish reiving system?
3. In the context of the laws of lawlessness, what is manbote? What did it require?
4. According to Leeson, what happened to an aggressor who "mutilate and maymed" a border inhabitant in the opposite realm? Can you think of a modern equivalent?
5. What specific rules the laws of lawlessness established for how a victim of a reiving expedition on one side of the border could proceed against his raiders on the other side?
6. What mechanisms borderers used to ensure participations in days of truce and compliance with day-of-truce decisions?