Governing for prosperity / edited by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Hilton L. Root.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bueno de Mesquita, Bruce, 1946-

Root, Hilton L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic policy--Case studies.

Economic policy.

Capitalism--Case studies.

Capitalism.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

vi, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, 2000.

Summary:

How do political institutions help promote prosperity in some countries and poverty in others? What can be done to encourage leaders to govern not for patronage but for economic growth? In this book, distinguished political economicsts answer these questions, providing a solution to one of the most important policy puzzles of the new century: how to govern for prosperity.

Contents:

1. When Bad Economics is Good Politics / Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Hilton L. Root 1

2. Order, Disorder, and Economic Change: Latin America Versus North America / Douglass C. North, William Summerhill, Barry R. Weingast 17

3. Political Institutions, Political Survival, and Policy Success / Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, James D. Morrow, Randolph M. Siverson, Alastair Smith 59

4. The Compulsion of Patronage: Political Sources of Information Asymmetry and Risk in Developing Country Economies / Hilton L. Root, Nahalel Nellis 85

5. Industrial Prosperity under Political Instability: An Analysis of Revolutionary Mexico / Stephen Haber, Armando Razo 106

6. Socio-Political Instability and the Problem of Development / Paul J. Zak 153

7. Political Institutions, Economic Growth, and Democratic Evolution: The Pacific Asian Scenario / Yi Feng, Margaret Huckeba, Son Nguyen T., Aaron Williams 172

8. Democracy and the Rule of Law / Robert Barro 209

9. Improving the Effectiveness of Donor-Assisted Development / Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Hilton L. Root 232.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0300080174

0300080182

OCLC:

42863138