It's really good and not that long. Talks about how Schelling points bring humans out of the Hobbesian jungle. Also acts as introduction to Schelling points I suppose.
A great deal of this argument can be taken to support conservatism in the general sense of the word: retaining existing social norms rather than engineering new ones, merely because existing norms are the ones that people expect.
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Property/Property.html
It's really good and not that long. Talks about how Schelling points bring humans out of the Hobbesian jungle. Also acts as introduction to Schelling points I suppose.