Imperfect institutions [electronic resource] : possibilities and limits of reform / Thrainn Eggertsson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: BookBookSeries: Economics, cognition, and societyPublication details: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2005.Description: vi, 264 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 330.1 22
LOC classification:
  • HB99.5 .T485 2005eb
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Contents:
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 -- Why Iceland starved -- 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-253) and indexes.

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 -- Why Iceland starved -- 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.

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