The Skeptics Guide to Institutions – Part 4
NOTE: The Growth Economics Blog has moved sites. Click here to find this post at the new site. The final installment of my series on the empirical institutions literature. Quick summary of the prior...
View ArticleBlattman on Institutions
NOTE: The Growth Economics Blog has moved sites. Click here to find this post at the new site. Chris Blattman has put up a very nice response to my institutions posts, including a number of good points...
View ArticlePopulations, not Nations, Dictate Development
NOTE: The Growth Economics Blog has moved sites. Click here to find this post at the new site. One of the more intriguing empirical regularities in recent growth research involves population origins....
View ArticleTrust, Familes, and Growth
NOTE: The Growth Economics Blog has moved sites. Click here to find this post at the new site. Warning: this post is too long and wildly speculative. Culture has (re)-emerged as one of the proposed...
View ArticleResearch on Persistent Roots of Development
NOTE: The Growth Economics Blog has moved sites. Click here to find this post at the new site. A few papers of interest regarding the persistent effect of historical conditions (geographic or not) on...
View ArticleMarkets, Institutions, and Underpants
NOTE: The Growth Economics Blog has moved sites. Click here to find this post at the new site. The title of this post is my proposed re-naming of Sven Beckert’s Empire of Cotton: A Global History....
View ArticleGreat Britain and Laissez Not-so-Faire Economics
NOTE: The Growth Economics Blog has moved sites. Click here to find this post at the new site. I recently finished State, Economy, and the Great Divergence by Peer Vries. It’s a comparison of the...
View ArticleTrust and the Benefit of the Doubt
NOTE: The Growth Economics Blog has moved sites. Click here to find this post at the new site. This is going to go off the rails quickly, so hang on. First, read this classic Douglas Adams story, and...
View ArticleAll Institutions, All the Time?
NOTE: The Growth Economics Blog has moved sites. Click here to find this post at the new site. Wolfgang Keller and Carol Shiue just released a working paper on “Market Integration as a Mechanism for...
View ArticleThe Glacial Speed of Institutional Change
NOTE: The Growth Economics Blog has moved sites. Click here to find this post at the new site. I just finished reading “The Long Process of Development” by Jerry Hough and Robin Grier. The quick...
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