By Insaf Ali Bangwar – The Law Today Pakistan

Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, Daron Acemoglu, James Robinson, The Narrow Corridor, absent leviathan, anarchy, oxymoron, paradox, District Kashmore, bandits, lawlessness, extortion, kidnapping, Hindu business community, Darul Aman shelters, IBA professor Dr Muhammad Ajmal Sawand, police reform, political patronage

When Will the Law Rule? It’s Just a Matter of Will

Estimated read time 7 min read
October 21, 2025

English philosopher Thomas Hobbes necessitated the existence of a central authority— a Leviathan— to govern people. Nobel laureate duo, Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson deconstruct Thomas Hobbes’s broad idea of a Leviathan…