There are diverse ideas about governance around the world, and this paper studies them through the following questions: (a) what does the available evidence tell us about the political and institutional requirements for sustained economic growth? (b) What do we need from the state to secure...

Several recent papers suggest that the negative association between natural resource intensity and economic growth can be reversed if institutional quality is high enough. We try to understand this result in more detail by decomposing the resource measure, using alternative measures of both...

This chapter surveys the historical evidence on the role of institutions in economic growth and points out weaknesses in a number of stylized facts widely accepted in the growth literature. It shows that private-order institutions have not historically substituted for public-order ones in...

Introduction -- A Study of the System of Capital from the Property Rights System and Its Evolution -- A Comparative Study of Marxist TPR and Modern TPR -- Institution, Institutional Change, and Economic Growth -- Property Rights Structure, Corporate Governance Structure and Its Issues in China...

This paper focuses on the role of institutions in enhancing economic growth. Attention to the institutional environment has become increasingly common in economic history and it has deeply enriched our understanding of how economies develop through time. Economic development is no longer...

This paper investigates the quality of property rights and long-term economic growth in an international cross-section of countries in 1975-1995. The empirical tests indicate that the impact of private property rights on growth is positive and simultaneously determined. Correcting for the...