This book aims to define comparative economics and to illustrate the breadth and depth of its contribution. It starts with an historiography of the field, arguing for a continued legacy of comparative economic systems, which compared socialism and capitalism, a field which some argued should...

Chapter 1: Introduction to the Handbook of Comparative Economics -- Part 1: Evolution of the Field of Comparative Economics Systems -- Chapter 2: A Historiography of Comparative Economics -- Chapter 3: The Soviet Economic System: An Archival Re-Evaluation -- Chapter 4: Institutions,...

Early growth theory from the time of the Solow model focused on factors of production and their productivity, and led to econometric estimates of the sources of growth measuring just these factors. Revived interest in growth as exemplified by Barro and Sala-i-Martin (1995) attempted to inquire...