Institutions and Economic Performance /

Institutions and Economic Performance / / ed. by Elhanan Helpman.

Institutions and Economic Performance explores the question of why income per capita varies so greatly across countries. Even taking into account disparities in resources, including physical and human capital, large economic discrepancies remain across countries. Why are some societies but not other...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Acemoglu, Daron,
Aghion, Philippe,
Alesina, Alberto,
Bautista, María Angélica,
Besley, Timothy,
Diermeier, Daniel,
Drelichman, Mauricio,
Fearon, James D.,
Fong, Pohan,
Greif, Avner,
Grossman, Gene M.,
Helpman, Elhanan,
Kudamatsu, Masayuki,
Mokyr, Joel,
Muthoo, Abhinay,
Nunn, Nathan,
Persson, Torsten,
Querubín, Pablo,
Robinson, James A.,
Shepsle, Kenneth A.,
Tabellini, Guido,
Trebbi, Francesco,
Voth, Hans-Joachim,
HerausgeberIn:
Helpman, Elhanan,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]
©2008
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (624 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • I History
  • 1 The Impact of Administrative Power on Political and Economic Developments: Toward a Political Economy of Implementation
  • 2 The Institutional Origins of the Industrial Revolution
  • 3 Institutions and the Resource Curse in Early Modern Spain
  • 4 Slavery, Inequality, and Economic Development in the Americas: An Examination of the Engerman-Sokoloff Hypothesis
  • 5 Economic and Political Inequality in Development: The Case of Cundinamarca, Colombia
  • II Theory
  • 6 The Constitutional Choice of Bicameralism
  • 7 Economic Development, Insurgency, and Civil War
  • 8 Party Discipline and Pork-Barrel Politics
  • 9 Policy Persistence in Multiparty Parliamentary Democracies
  • III Contemporary Evidence
  • 10 Formalizing Informal Institutions
  • 11 Making Autocracy Work
  • 12 Democracy, Technology, and Growth
  • 13 The Growth Effect of Democracy: Is It Heterogenous and How Can It Be Estimated?
  • List of Contributors
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index

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