Ogilvie and Carus handbook chapter on institutions and economic growth in historical perspective. Whenever economic historians write something called “XXXXX in historical perspective”, the p...
reads like Wikipedia with regressions”.) I recommend once again Dieter Vollrath’s The Sceptic’s Guide to Institutions (in 4 parts), along with Chris Blattman’s institutions reading l...
factor prices may be a worthwhile avenue to explore, possibly as the lever on which institutions (hypocrite!?) or geography push to generate differences in living
the persistence of institutions) have first-order economic effects; see a recent series of posts by Dietz Vollrath for a skeptical view. I find this paper by Dippel et al, as well as recent work...
my pleasure, then, upon recently reading Dietz Vollrath’s rather sceptical review of the academic literature on ‘institutions’. It seems the evidence is actually a bit flimsy.
In reply to Michael. Michael - without question there is no such th...
In my opinion the Acemoglu and Robinson theories in particular are often misinterpreted and simplified, and unfortunately this blog post is no exception. For example, let's examine your statement...
In reply to dvollrath. On figure it out themselves, you may enjoy B...
In reply to dvollrath. The definitions of institutions depend on th...
In reply to Luis Enrique. I have. And theirs is a fine conclusion, ...