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Constitutional Environments and Economic Growth /

In this provocative work, Gerald Scully develops and empirically tests a theory about how a nation's constitutional setting affects its economic growth. Modern growth theory links the rise in the standard of living to capital formation, both physical and human, and to technological progress, an...

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Autor principal: Scully, Gerald W. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]
Edición:Course Book
Colección:Princeton Legacy Library ; 209
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • CHAPTER 1. Overview
  • CHAPTER 2. The Theory of Economic Growth and Economic Policy
  • CHAPTER 3. The Constitutional Setting and the Gains from Exchange
  • CHAPTER 4. A Theory of the Evolution of the Constitutional Setting
  • CHAPTER 5. Measures of Liberty
  • CHAPTER 6. The Choice of Law and the Extent of Liberty
  • CHAPTER 7. The Constitutional Setting and Economic Development
  • CHAPTER 8. The Constitutional Setting and the Distribution of Income
  • CHAPTER 9. The Economic Effect of the Size of the State
  • CHAPTER 10. What Is to Be Done? Reform of the Institutional Framework and Economic Policy for Progress
  • Notes
  • Index