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Institutions and Economic Performance
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Edited by:
Elhanan Helpman
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English
Published/Copyright:
2008
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Explores the question of why income per capita varies so greatly across countries. This book is unique in its melding of economics, political science, history, and sociology to address its central question.
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A first-rate book that bridges theory, history, and empirical analysis.
-- Nathan Sussman, Hebrew University
-- Nathan Sussman, Hebrew University
Why are some societies but not others able to encourage investments in places, people, and productivity? This book delivers a powerful message that the answer lies in large part in institutional differences across societies. It is the most successful interdisciplinary endeavor in the social sciences that I have ever had the pleasure to read.
-- Daniel Trefler, University of Toronto
-- Daniel Trefler, University of Toronto
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Preface
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Introduction
1 - I History
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1 The Impact of Administrative Power on Political and Economic Developments: Toward a Political Economy of Implementation
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2 The Institutional Origins of the Industrial Revolution
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3 Institutions and the Resource Curse in Early Modern Spain
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4 Slavery, Inequality, and Economic Development in the Americas: An Examination of the Engerman-Sokoloff Hypothesis
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5 Economic and Political Inequality in Development: The Case of Cundinamarca, Colombia
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6 The Constitutional Choice of Bicameralism
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7 Economic Development, Insurgency, and Civil War
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8 Party Discipline and Pork-Barrel Politics
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9 Policy Persistence in Multiparty Parliamentary Democracies
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10 Formalizing Informal Institutions
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11 Making Autocracy Work
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12 Democracy, Technology, and Growth
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13 The Growth Effect of Democracy: Is It Heterogenous and How Can It Be Estimated?
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List of Contributors
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Author Index
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Subject Index
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July 1, 2009
eBook ISBN:
9780674038578
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624
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9780674038578
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Professional and scholarly;
