This essay employs a database of covering 31 different types of economic institutions for 41 developing nations. Defining an economic system in terms of clusters of complementary institutions and performing a cluster analysis, I derive four different types of economic systems. Then I explore the...

This essay argues that economic systems should be defined in terms of clusters of complementary institutions. To show how such an approach can be carried out, I use a cluster analysis technique and data on forty different economic institutions in OECD nations to isolate four quite different...