Imperfect institutions possibilities and limits of reform /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Þráinn Eggertsson, 1941-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2005.
Series:Economics, cognition, and society.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • Imperfect institutions and growth theory in modern economics
  • Barriers to growth : institutions and social technologies
  • Competing social models
  • Stable poverty and unstable growth
  • The political logic of bad economics
  • Inefficient social norms
  • Why Iceland starved
  • Applying social technologies : lessons from the old theory of economic policy
  • Degrees of freedom in institutional reform
  • Eluding poverty traps, escaping history
  • Minimal property rights and legal transplants.