this change to the reversal in the nature of economic institutions, which eat underwent a series of growth …

This paper develops the empirical and theoretical case that differences in economic institutions are the fundamental … cause of differences in economic development. We first document the empirical importance of institutions by focusing on two … “quasi-natural experiments” in history, the division of Korea into two parts with very different economic institutions and …

innovation activities. The selection of high-skill managers is more important for innovation activities. As the economy … investments, but little selection. Closer to the world technology frontier, there is a switch to an innovation-based strategy with … economies may switch out of the investment-based strategy too soon, so certain economic institutions and policies, such as …

Revolution -- 3 Institutions and the Resource Curse in Early Modern Spain -- 4 Slavery, Inequality, and Economic Development in … Democracies -- III Contemporary Evidence -- 10 Formalizing Informal Institutions -- 11 Making Autocracy Work -- 12 Democracy …Institutions and Economic Performance explores the question of why income per capita varies so greatly across countries …

linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 … predictive power on future innovation after 1995. This pattern is consistent with the idea that when there is more past upstream …