themselves. It contends that forces of globalisation influence individual countries' economic and social institutions …

experiences, placing particular emphasis on the role of institutions. They demonstrate how the study of economic development is … increasingly linked to the development of institutions, which allow for more complex exchanges to occur in markets and societies …. Institutions can be understood as rules or constraints that channel individuals' actions in specific directions, and can be formal …

The first book in this important new series, under the general editorship of Nobel Laureate Robert Solow, Institutions …1. The transformation of corporate organization in Europe : an overview -- 2. Adapting European labour institutions to … communities -- 8. The diversity of social systems of innovation and production during the 1990s -- 9. An overview of sustainable …

Institutions and the beginning of economic growth in eighteenth-century Britain -- The coevolution of institutions and … growth -- Market failures within poor institutions: the effects of bureaucrats' rent-seeking activity -- Government spending …

James A. Robinson (2002), 'Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income … between institutions and economic performance. The included works encompass seminal cross-country studies of 'whether … institutions matter', as well as leading examples of within-country studies on the role of specific institutions. This …

This illuminating book broadly addresses the emerging field of "diversity of capitalism" from a comparative …

framework of and empirical evidence on fiscal institutions, covering budgetary rules and procedures as well as fiscal … decentralization, and reviews the theoretical framework for monetary institutions such as central bank independence, currency boards …1. A modified approach to development economics -- 2. The model and empirics -- 3. Fiscal institutions and empirical …

, 2000, and 2002', World Bank Economic Review, 18 (2) 253-87 -- David Booth (2011), 'Aid, Institutions and Governance: What …, DC: World Bank. -- World Bank (2002), 'Building institutions for markets', World Development Report 2002, Washington, DC …: World Bank. -- Douglass C. North (1991), 'Institutions', Journal of Economic Perspectives, 5 (1), Winter, 97-112 -- Oliver E …

in different countries around the world. Institutions such as the WTO, World Bank and the IMF will find much to engage …