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This paper refracts Gordon Tullock's The Social Dilemma onto a framework of spontaneous order theorizing, and finds the refraction to work well. The Social Dilemma reveals Gordon Tullock to be a theorist whose conceptualizations are anchored in a societal setting represented better by networks than by fields, and where societal outcomes emerge out of local networked interaction. The theoretical orientation of The Social Dilemma is redolent with spontaneous order themes, including his adoption of a field of vision that looks for social order west of Babel and not east of Eden. The paper also makes some secondary effort to compare The Social Dilemma with James Buchanan's The Limits of Liberty. Adapted from the source document.

Contemporary fiscal theorizing largely assimilates the activities of
government to that of some choosing agent. This paper explores an
alternative approach where government is assimilated to an emergent
process of complex interaction, as a form of complex adaptive system.
Within this alternative vision, governments are treated not as objects of
intervention into a market economy but as arenas of organized
participation within it. While recent developments in computational
modeling are starting to provide tools for probing such a vision, the
roots of that vision can be traced back to the spontaneous order theorists
of the 18th century. After sketching some contours of this alternative
vision, the remainder of the paper explores some possible implications of
this change in vision for mapping the relationship among taxation,
prosperity, and justice.