The Social Order of the Underworld: How Prison Gangs Govern the American Penal System by David Skarbek. It discusses decentralised governance in its purest form!
Read part of this -- mind blowing as fuck. How did you run across it?
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I read The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates by Peter T. Leeson some years ago and I found a recommendation online that this book was similar.
The section on prison gang taxation is particularly interesting.
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