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# Cato University 2017: *The Economics of Cooperation and Coercion*

People can get what they want by persuasion or by violence. But, how does economics help us to understand each form of interaction: work and trade, on the one hand, and force and robbery, on the other?

**From [Cato University 2017: Summer Seminar on Political Economy](https://www.cato.org/cato-university/college-economics)**

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