Zunächst werden einige mögliche Zusammenhänge zwischen Institutionen und wirtschaftlicher Entwicklung diskutiert und mit empirischen Befunden konfrontiert. Martin Leschke verdichtet verschiedene institutionelle Variablen zu zwei Faktoren und schätzt deren Einfluss auf Wohlstand und Wachstum...

This book explores institutional change and economic behaviour by examining the transition process in the former socialist countries that joined the EU in 2004, looking at the growth occurring in China, offering a historical perspective on economic underdevelopment in the Middle East, and...

In this landmark work, a Nobel Prize-winning economist develops a new way of understanding the process by which economies change. Douglass North inspired a revolution in economic history a generation ago by demonstrating that economic performance is determined largely by the kind and quality of...

1. Democracy and prosperity / Randall G. Holcombe -- 2. Competition among governments : the state's two roles in a globalized world / Viktor J. Vanberg -- 3. Rent extraction, liberalism, and economic development / Roger D. Congleton -- 4. Institutions for economic prosperity : an entrepreneurial...