TY  - BOOK
AU  - Acemoglu,Daron
AU  - Aghion,Philippe
AU  - Alesina,Alberto
AU  - Bautista,María Angélica
AU  - Besley,Timothy
AU  - Diermeier,Daniel
AU  - Drelichman,Mauricio
AU  - Fearon,James D.
AU  - Fong,Pohan
AU  - Greif,Avner
AU  - Grossman,Gene M.
AU  - Helpman,Elhanan
AU  - Kudamatsu,Masayuki
AU  - Mokyr,Joel
AU  - Muthoo,Abhinay
AU  - Nunn,Nathan
AU  - Persson,Torsten
AU  - Querubín,Pablo
AU  - Robinson,James A.
AU  - Shepsle,Kenneth A.
AU  - Tabellini,Guido
AU  - Trebbi,Francesco
AU  - Voth,Hans-Joachim
TI  - Institutions and Economic Performance
SN  - 9780674038578
AV  - HD82 .I347 2008eb
U1  - 338.9 22
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Economic development
KW  - Political culture
KW  - Public administration
KW  - Regional economic disparities
KW  - Social institutions
KW  - Social structure
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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 others able to encourage investments in places, people, and productivity? The answer, the book argues, lies to a large extent in institutional differences across societies. Such institutions are wide-ranging and include formal constitutional arrangements, the role of economic and political elites, informal institutions that promote investment and knowledge transfer, and others. Two core themes run through the contributors’ essays. First, what constraints do institutions place on the power of the executive to prevent it from extorting the investments and effort of other people and institutions? Second, when are productive institutions self-enforcing? Institutions and Economic Performance is unique in its melding of economics, political science, history, and sociology to address its central question
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674038578?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674038578
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674038578/original
ER  -