Imperfect institutions [electronic resource] : possibilities and limits of reform / Thrainn Eggertsson.
Series: Economics, cognition, and societyPublication details: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2005.Description: vi, 264 pISBN:- 0472114565 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0472030396 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 330.1 22
- HB99.5 .T485 2005eb
eBooks
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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