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Understanding Adam Smith’s 'General Principles of Law and Politics' : A Linear Reconstruction of Istvan Hont's Contribution

Weingast, Barry R. - 2018

, no-growth feudal society. Throughout, the reconstruction shows that Smith related law and government to economic …

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Political Institutions and Government Spending Behavior : Theory and Evidence from Iran

Dizaji, Sajjad; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Naghavi, Alireza - 2021

This study examines how the quality of political institutions affects the distribution of the government budget in Iran. We first introduce a mechanism through which democracy can shift government expenditure from national defense (military) to productivity-enhancing public spending (e.g.,...

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The Challenge of Media Platform Regulation for Small and Medium-Sized Nations

Flew, Terry - 2021

The rise of a small number of digital platform corporations as the de facto governing institutions of the Internet has generated calls from around the world for greater regulation of platform power in the public interest. Concerns have ranged from monopolistic economic power and adverse effects...

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Elites and health infrastructure improvements in industrializing regimes

Krieger, Tommy - 2022

We collect information about more than 5,000 Prussian politicians, digitize administrative data on the provision of health-promoting public goods, and gather local-level information on workers' movements to study why elites in industrializing countries implement policies that improve the health...

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Political institutions and government spending behavior : theory and evidence from Iran

Dizaji, Sajjad Faraji; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; … - 2015

This study examines how quality of political institutions affects the distribution of government budget in Iran. We first introduce a mechanism through which this can shift government expenditure from patronage to more constructive public spending. Using impulse response functions (IRF) and...

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Elite structure and the provision of health-promoting public goods

Krieger, Tommy - 2020

We compile biographical information on more than 5,000 Prussian politicians and exploit newly digitized administrative data to examine whether landowning and landless elites differ in the extent to which they support health infrastructure projects. Using exogenous variation in soil texture, we...

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Volatility and growth: Governments are key

Jetter, Michael - In: European Journal of Political Economy 36 (2014) C, pp. 71-88

There exists a persistent disagreement in the literature over the effect of business cycles on economic growth. This … a negative indirect effect, operating through the insurance mechanism of government size. Theoretically, the net growth … power to choose public services in autocratic regimes the positive direct effect takes over. Consequently, volatile growth …

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Volatility and Growth: Governments are Key

Jetter, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

There exists a persistent disagreement in the literature over the effect of business cycles on economic growth. This … negative indirect effect, operating through the insurance mechanism of government size. Theoretically, the net growth effect of … services in autocratic regimes the positive direct effect takes over. Consequently, volatile growth rates are detrimental to …

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Forbidden Fruits: The Political Economy of Science, Religion, and Growth

Bénabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We analyze the joint dynamics of religious beliefs, scientific progress and coalitional politics along both religious and economic lines. History offers many examples of the recurring tensions between science and organized religion, but as part of the paper’s motivating evidence we also...

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Forbidden Fruits: The Political Economy of Science, Religion, and Growth

Benabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

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