Imperfect institutions : possibilities and limits of reform /
Includes bibliographical references and index. Imperfect institutions : theory -- Imperfect institutions and growth theory in modern economics -- Barriers to growth : institutions and social technologies -- Competing social models -- Stable poverty and unstable growth -- The political logic of bad e...
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Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
2004
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015060576280 |
| Summary: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Imperfect institutions : theory -- Imperfect institutions and growth theory in modern economics -- Barriers to growth : institutions and social technologies -- Competing social models -- Stable poverty and unstable growth -- The political logic of bad economics -- Inefficient social norms -- Empirical interlude : poverty trap--a case study -- Why Iceland starved -- Institutional policy -- Applying social technologies : lessons from the old theory of economic policy -- Degrees of freedom in institutional reform -- Eluding poverty traps, escaping history -- Minimal property rights and legal transplants. Mode of access: Internet. |
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