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I would like to thank the following for very helpful discussions and comments on earlier drafts of this paper: Economists James M. Buchanan, Gary Becker, Jack Carr. Robert W. Clower, Robert D. Cooter, Harold Demsetz and Cordon Tullock; political scientists Robert H. Bates and Bernard Grofman; sociologist Theodore Caplow; anthropologists Elizabeth Cotson, Frederick Damoa, and Victor W. Turner; and three anonymous referees. I greatly benefited from my participation at the ‘1981 Kula Conference’ held at the University of Virginia. Charlottsville. 31 May 9 June 1981; I would like to thank Frederick Damon for inviting me to the Conference. Earlier versions of the paper were presented at the Public Choice Society Annual meetings, San Francisco, 14–16 March 1980, and at the Law and Society Annual meetings, Amtierst College, Massachusetts, 12–14 June 1981. I also benefited from duscusstion at invited seminars at the University of Bielefeld (21 April 1980). University of the Federal Armed Forces (Munich. 24 April 1980). University of Basel (25 April 1980). University of Zurich (28 April 1980). and the University of California at Berkeley, Law School (Jurisprudence, and Social Policy Program. 13 February 1981). This is a revised version of Institute for Policy Analysis. University of Toronto, Working Paper. No. 8123 (June 1981).