Imperfect institutions
Subtitle: possibilities and limits of reform
By: Thráinn Eggertsson
Series: Economics, cognition, and society
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Institutional economics; Right of property
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-253) and index
Table of contents: title: Imperfect institutions : theory; title: Imperfect institutions and growth theory in modern economics; title: Barriers to growth : institutions and social technologies; title: Competing social models; title: Stable poverty and unstable growth; title: The political logic of bad economics; title: Inefficient social norms; title: Empirical interlude : poverty trap; title: a case study; title: Why Iceland starved; title: Institutional policy; title: Applying social technologies : lessons from the old theory of economic policy; title: Degrees of freedom in institutional reform; title: Eluding poverty traps, escaping history; title: Minimal property rights and legal transplants