This is Part 1 of a two-part paper which surveys the historical evidence on the role of institutions in economic growth … that private-order institutions have not historically substituted for public-order ones in enabling markets to function …, clarify the growth effects of other institutions, including contract-enforcement mechanisms, guilds, communities, serfdom, and …

Is human capital a robust predictor of good institutions? Using a new institutional quality measure, the International …

This is Part 2 of a two-part paper which surveys the historical evidence on the role of institutions in economic growth … that private-order institutions have not historically substituted for public-order ones in enabling markets to function …, clarify the growth effects of other institutions, including contract-enforcement mechanisms, guilds, communities, serfdom, and …

We study the co-existence of two community-based institutions for fisheries management in Benin: a traditional … survey data on fishing activities, we find that rules of both institutions have a statistically significant but small impact … fully assess the effectiveness of, and interactions between, the two institutions. …

political science, sociology, psychology, law and anthropology) is fruitful to explain institutions because it allows us to …

eliminated by trade. We provide an evolutionary model of endogenous preferences and institutions under autarchy, trade and factor …