Imperfect institutions : possibilities and limits of reform

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction. Opportunities Lost -- PART I. Imperfect Institutions-Theory -- Chapter 1. Imperfect Institutions and Growth Theory in Modern Economics -- Chapter 2. Barriers to Growth: Institutions and Social Technologies -- Chapter 3. Competing Social Models -- Chapter 4. Stable Poverty and Unstable Growth -- Chapter 5. The Political Logic of Bad Economics -- Chapter 6. Inef‹cient Social Norms -- PART II. Empirical Interlude: Poverty Trap-A Case Study -- Chapter 7. Why Iceland Starved -- PART III. Institutional Policy -- Chapter 8. Applying Social Technologies: Lessons from the Old Theory of Economic Policy -- Chapter 9. Degrees of Freedom in Institutional Reform -- Chapter 10. Eluding Poverty Traps, Escaping History -- Chapter 11. Minimal Property Rights and Legal Transplants -- Conclusion. The Subtle Art of Major Institutional Reform -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Subject Index.