Ekelund, Robert; Tollison, Robert - In: The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 4 (1997) 3, pp. 375-399
How and why do economies grow? This paper surveys recent research into preclassical economies, with particular emphasis on the mercantile period as to the adequacy of an answer of this critical question. Historical, 'ideational' and neoinstitutionalist approaches are analyzed as independent...