Author : Douglass C. North
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 31,54 MB
Release : 1990-10-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521397346
An analytical framework for explaining the ways in which institutions and institutional change affect the performance of economies is developed in this analysis of economic structures.
Author : Jean-Marie Baland
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 34,20 MB
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0691191212
"The essential role institutions play in understanding economic development has long been recognised and has been closely studied across the social sciences but some of the most high profile work has been done by economists many of whom are included in this collection covering a wide range of topics including the relationship between institutions and growth, educational systems, the role of the media and the intersection between traditional systems of patronage and political institutions. Each chapter covers the frontier research in its area and points to new areas of research and is the product of extensive workshopping and editing. The editors have also written an excellent introduction which brings together the key themes of the handbook. The list of contributors is stellar (Steven Durlauf, Throsten Beck, Bob Allen,and includes a diverse mix of Western and non Western, male and female scholars)"
Author : Christopher Clague
Publisher :
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 19,13 MB
Release : 1997-06-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
The premise of this text is that economic development and post-communist transitions can be illuminated by economic analysis of institutions. The policies selected and their implementation by government agencies, property rights and participation in community organizations are all analyzed.
Author : M. M. Shirley
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 17,89 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1848443994
Both economic research and the history of foreign aid suggest that the largest barriers to development arise from a society's institutions - its norms and rules. This book explains how institutions drive economic development. It provides numerous examples to illustrate the complex, interlocking, and persistent nature of real world rules and norms.
Author : Shiping Tang
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 49,9 MB
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0691235589
A systemic account of how institutions shape economic development Institutions matter for economic development. Yet despite this accepted wisdom, new institutional economics (NIE) has yet to provide a comprehensive look at what constitutes the institutional foundation of economic development (IFED). Bringing together findings from a range a fields, from development economics and development studies to political science and sociology, The Institutional Foundation of Economic Development explores the precise mechanisms through which institutions affect growth. Shiping Tang contends that institutions shape economic development through four “Big Things”: possibility, incentive, capability, and opportunity. From this perspective, IFED has six major dimensions: political hierarchy, property rights, social mobility, redistribution, innovation protection, and equal opportunity. Tang further argues that IFED is only one pillar within the New Development Triangle (NDT): sustained economic development also requires strong state capacity and sound socioeconomic policies. Arguing for an evolutionary approach tied to a country’s stage of development, The Institutional Foundation of Economic Development advances an understanding of institutions and economic development through a holistic, interdisciplinary lens.
Author : Stanley L. Engerman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 25,41 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107009553
Examines differences in the rates of economic growth in Latin America and mainland North America since the seventeenth century.
Author : Dora L. Costa
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 33,69 MB
Release : 2011-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226116344
The conditions for sustainable growth and development are among the most debated topics in economics, and the consensus is that institutions matter greatly in explaining why some economies are more successful than others over time. This book explores the relationship between economic conditions, growth, and inequality.
Author : Silvio Borner
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 36,89 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
This publication discusses the impact of institutions on economic development and the determinants that shape institutional quality, using a new institutional economics (NIE) model based on a multidisciplinary approach to understanding issues including growth, efficiency and income distribution. Using the experience of Argentina under the Menem government as a case study, a methodology is developed and applied to test theoretical hypotheses regarding the concept of institutional quality and how delineation between economic and political institutions work in practice. It also considers systems of democracy and autocracy, and the impact of traditional, legal and cultural frameworks on institutional efficiency.
Author : Jean-Philippe Platteau
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 21,99 MB
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136600450
In order for economic specialization to develop, it is important that well-defined property rights are established and that suspicion and fear of fraud do not pervade transactions. Such conditions cannot be created ex abrubto, but must somehow evolve. What needs to develop is not only suitable practices and rules themselves, but also the public agencies and moral environment without which generalized trust is difficult to establish. The cultural endowment of societies as they have developed over their particular histories is bound to play a major role in this regard, and the matter of cultual endowment is one of the central themes of this book. On the other hand, division of labour does not only require well-enforced property rights and trust in economic dealings. It is also critically conditioned by the thickness of economic space, itself dependent on population density. This provides the second major theme of the volume: market development, including the development of private property rights is not possible, or will remain very incomplete, if populations are thinly spread over large areas of land. The book makes special reference to sub-Saharan Africa.
Author : Michael G. Heller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 12,62 MB
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1135214999
In this forthright challenge to relativist economic recipes for growth and culturalist-incrementalist views in institutional economics, Heller draws on Weber, Schumpeter, and Hayek to present a new universalistic vision of capitalism's depersonalized institutions as well as the ideological policies needed during constructed capitalist transitions.
