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Institutions and norms in economic development / edited by Mark Gradstein and Kai A. Konrad.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- CESifo seminar series.
- CESifo seminar series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic development.
- Economic policy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (251 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Experts address "the development puzzle"--Unprecedented growth coupled with unequal distribution of that growth across different countries-and focus on the importance of institutional arrangements and norms and culture.
- Contents:
- Contents; Contributors; Series Foreword; Preface; List of Tables; List of Figures; I Setting the Stage; 1 The Development Puzzle; II Governance Structure; 2 Precolonial Centralization and Institutional Quality in Africa; 3 Can Delegation Promote Fiscal Discipline in a Federation? Evidence from Fiscal Performance in the Indian States; 4 The Political Economy of Education in Kenya; III Institutional Quality, Property Rights, and Appropriation; 5 A Theory of Corruption, Political Exclusion, and Windfalls
- 6 Explaining Conflict in Low-Income Countries: Incomplete Contracting in the Shadow of the Future7 Information and Incomplete Investor Protection; IV Norms and Culture; 8 Islamic Resurgence and Social Violence during the Indonesian Financial Crisis; 9 Social Identity and Redistributive Politics; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-30721-9
- 1-282-09898-5
- 9786612098987
- 0-262-27419-1
- 1-4294-8062-9
- OCLC:
- 170227201
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