, the NIE expanded its focus to the role of institutions and norms on economic development as well as how economic forces …

This chapter surveys the historical evidence on the role of institutions in economic growth and points out weaknesses … in a number of stylized facts widely accepted in the growth literature. It shows that private-order institutions have not … institutions, including contract-enforcement mechanisms, guilds, communities, serfdom, and the family. Greater precision concerning …

history matters. The most commonly examined channels include institutions, culture, knowledge and technology, and movements …

show that it is part of more general framework based on the influence of institutions on the economy and of machines on …

third section of the paper will address studies that take institutions to be endogenous and aims to explain why particular … institutions emerge. Finally, the question of whether Political Economy has been a success or a failure will be tackled. While the …