Institutions and Economic Performance
Published on 1. July 2009
624 pages
978-0-674-03857-8 (ISBN)
Description
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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Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, MA; London
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-0-674-03857-8 (9780674038578)
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Elhanan Helpman
Institutions and Economic Performance
Book
11/2008
Harvard University Press
€107.84
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Person
Elhanan Helpman is Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade at Harvard University and the author of many research articles and books.
Content
Preface Introduction Part I. History 1. The Impact of Administrative Power on Political and Economic Developments 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 Part 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 Multi-Party Parliamentary Democracies Part III. Contemporary Evidence 10. Formalizing Information Institutions 11. Makeing Autocracy Work 12. Democracy, Technology, and Growth 13. The Growth Effect of Democracy List of Contributors Index
