In this clear and engaging book, economist Louis Putterman places the economy and the study of economics in a broad historical and social perspective. He explores the history of the discipline, the history of the modern economy, different perspectives on the market economy, and the relations...

This Ph.D. thesis consists of three chapters and analyzes how economic structures affect political outcomes. In the first chapter, Uwe Sunde and I develop a model to study the endogenous emergence of political regimes in societies in which productive resources are distributed unequally and...