Institutions and patterns of economic development
By: edited by Masahiko Aoki, Timur Kuran, and Gérard Roland
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9781137034038
Subjects: Economic policy; Economic development; Economic history
Table of contents: title: List of tables; title: List of figures; title: Comparative analysis; title: The five phases of economic development and institutional evolution in China, Japan and Korea / M.Aoki; title: Social organizations, risk sharing institutions and economic development / A.Greif, M.Iyugun & D.Sasson; title: Before and beyond divergence a new look at the economic history of China and Europe / J.Rosenthal & R.Wong; title: Understanding the individualism-collectivism cleavage and its effects : lessons from cultural psychology / Y.Gorodnichenko & G.Roland; title: Why development patterns differ : the Czech and Serbian cases compared / J.Svejnar & M.Uvalic; title: Economic development; title: Sharing the future : financial innovation and innovators in solving the political economic challenges of development / S.Jha; title: The evolution of domestic trade flows when foreign trade is liberalized : evidence from the Chinese maritime customs services / W.Keller, B.Li & C.Shuie; title: Physical, social and informational barriers to domestic migration / P.Choudhury & T.Khanna; title: Developmental "paths" and "civilisations" in Africa and Asia : reflections on strategies for integrating cultural and material explanations of differential long-term economic performance / G.Austin; title: Political institutions on development paths; title: Political consequence of the Middle East's Islamic economic legacy / T.Kuran; title: Separation of powers and the medieval roots of institutional divergence between; title: Europe and the Islamic Middle East / E.Chaney; title: Political institution and long run economic trajectory : some lessons from two millenia of Chinese civilization / D. Ma; title: Part four: Challenges of food security under globalization; title: Food security, commodity price volatility and the poor / J. von Braun & G. Tadesse; title: Supply responses to food price changes in Asian countries / K. Imai, R. Gaiha, G. Thapa & A. Ali; title: Structural transformation, small farmers and food security in Asia / C. Timmer; title: Economic development and culture; title: Making sense of institutional change in China : the cultural dimension of economic growth and modernization / C. Pillath.