Constitutional Environments and Economic Growth / / Gerald W. Scully.

In this provocative work, Gerald Scully develops and empirically tests a theory about how a nation's constitutional setting affects its economic growth. Modern growth theory links the rise in the standard of living to capital formation, both physical and human, and to technological progress, an...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1992
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 209
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Physical Description:1 online resource (258 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • CHAPTER 1. Overview
  • CHAPTER 2. The Theory of Economic Growth and Economic Policy
  • CHAPTER 3. The Constitutional Setting and the Gains from Exchange
  • CHAPTER 4. A Theory of the Evolution of the Constitutional Setting
  • CHAPTER 5. Measures of Liberty
  • CHAPTER 6. The Choice of Law and the Extent of Liberty
  • CHAPTER 7. The Constitutional Setting and Economic Development
  • CHAPTER 8. The Constitutional Setting and the Distribution of Income
  • CHAPTER 9. The Economic Effect of the Size of the State
  • CHAPTER 10. What Is to Be Done? Reform of the Institutional Framework and Economic Policy for Progress
  • Notes
  • Index