Institutions and Economic Performance

Published by Harvard University Press 2008

Institutions and Economic Performance

Edited by: Elhanan Helpman

https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674038578

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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.

Reviews

A first-rate book that bridges theory, history, and empirical analysis.
-- 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

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Elhanan Helpman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I History
1 The Impact of Administrative Power on Political and Economic Developments: Toward a Political Economy of Implementation Avner Greif Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
2 The Institutional Origins of the Industrial Revolution Joel Mokyr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
3 Institutions and the Resource Curse in Early Modern Spain Mauricio Drelichman and Hans-Joachim Voth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	120
4 Slavery, Inequality, and Economic Development in the Americas: An Examination of the Engerman-Sokoloff Hypothesis Nathan Nunn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
5 Economic and Political Inequality in Development: The Case of Cundinamarca, Colombia Daron Acemoglu, María Angélica Bautista, Pablo Querubín and James A. Robinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
II Theory
6 The Constitutional Choice of Bicameralism Abhinay Muthoo and Kenneth A. Shepsle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
7 Economic Development, Insurgency, and Civil War James D. Fearon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	292
8 Party Discipline and Pork-Barrel Politics Gene M. Grossman and Elhanan Helpman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329
9 Policy Persistence in Multiparty Parliamentary Democracies Daniel Diermeier and Pohan Fong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361
III Contemporary Evidence
10 Formalizing Informal Institutions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	409
11 Making Autocracy Work Timothy Besley and Masayuki Kudamatsu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	452
12 Democracy, Technology, and Growth Philippe Aghion, Alberto Alesina and Francesco Trebbi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	511
13 The Growth Effect of Democracy: Is It Heterogenous and How Can It Be Estimated? Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	544
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	587
Author Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	589
Subject Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	597

Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 624

eBook

Published: July 1, 2009
ISBN: 9780674038578