This book investigates whether legal reforms intended to create a market-friendly regulatory business environment have a positive impact on economic and financial outcomes. After conducting a critical review of the legal origins literature, the authors first analyze the evolution of legal rules...

Chapter 1: Reflections on the Contemporary Capitalist Economy -- Chapter 2: The Origin of Altruism: The Key to Group Survival -- Chapter 3: The Economy of Goodness in Feudal Society -- Chapter 4: Philosophical and Cultural Beliefs and the Economy of Goodness -- Chapter 5: Economic Goodness...

1. Introduction -- 2. The Economic Model -- 3. Intra-State Sequencing with Historical Examples -- 4. Drivers of Historical Sequences -- 5. International Sequencing with Historical Examples -- 6. Peacekeeping and Sequencing -- 7. Case Study: Secessionist Motives in the American Civil War -- 8....