There is growing recognition in the economics literature that African countries are characterized by very large economic disparities across subnational regions. Yet the lack of systematic and reliable empirical data at subnational levels of aggregation has made it difficult to explore possible...

Political Economy (PE) has been used in the national realm to understand political outcomes, including laws and jurisprudence applied to all substantive matters. PE identifies the interests of relevant actors as well as the characteristics of the institutions through which they pursue their...

Machine generated contents note: 1. An Essay on Government and Governance 1 -- 2. The Political-Economic Logic of World Governance 39 -- 3. The Rule of Law and the Capture and Use of Government in a World of Inequality 61 -- 4. Hayek from the Perspective of an Institutionalist Historian of...

In this paper, I aim to discuss New Political Economy as a label for the economic analysis of politics, in the English language. The term ‘political economy’ itself, although it has ceased to be the preferred term by which economists refer to their discipline, it is still being used by a...