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Two Paths to Prosperity

Culture and Institutions in Europe and China, 1000–2000

by Avner Greif, Joel Mokyr, Guido Tabellini ...

How the social organization of Europe and China shaped their divergent economic and political trajectories over the past millenniumIn the eleventh century, when Europe was still backward and poor, China was a rich and sophisticated civilization. Yet Europe became the birthplace of democracy and the Industrial Revolution, driving the Great Enrichment, while China stagnated until the end of the ... Read more

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How the social organization of Europe and China shaped their divergent economic and political trajectories over the past millenniumIn the eleventh century, when Europe was still backward and poor, China was a rich and sophisticated civilization. Yet Europe became the birthplace of democracy and the Industrial Revolution, driving the Great Enrichment, while China stagnated until the end of the
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Macroeconomic Policy, Credibility and Politics

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Uses a game theoretic approach to explore which economic policies are 'credible' and 'politically feasible', questions that had eluded traditional macroeconomic approaches. ... Read more

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Uses a game theoretic approach to explore which economic policies are 'credible' and 'politically feasible', questions that had eluded traditional macroeconomic approaches.
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Political Economics

Explaining Economic Policy

by Torsten Persson, Guido Tabellini ...

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What determines the size and form of redistributive programs, the extent and type of public goods provision, the burden of taxation across alternative tax bases, the size of government deficits, and the stance of monetary policy during the course of business and electoral cycles? A large and rapidly growing literature in political economics attempts to answer these questions. But so far there is ... Read more

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What determines the size and form of redistributive programs, the extent and type of public goods provision, the burden of taxation across alternative tax bases, the size of government deficits, and the stance of monetary policy during the course of business and electoral cycles? A large and rapidly growing literature in political economics attempts to answer these questions. But so far there is
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Culture Matters in Russia—and Everywhere

Backdrop for the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

by Lawrence Harrison, Evgeny Yasin, Oscar Árias Sánchez, Miguel Basáñez, Marita Carballo, Valery Chirkov, Oleg Chirkunov, Daniel Etounga-Manguelle, James Fox0, Mariano Grondona1, Geert Hofstede2, Ronald Inglehart3, Josef Joffe4, Jerome Kagan5, Irina Karatsuba6, Rob Kleinbaum7, Borris Knorre8, Andrei Konchalovsky9, Deepak Lal0, Nadezhda Lebedeva1, Vladimir Magun2, Matteo Marini3, Eric Maskin4, Richard Nisbett5, Douglass North6, Rachel Okunubi7, Fernando Reimers8, Maksim Rudnev9, Reese Schonfeld0, Shalom Schwartz1, Maria Snegovaya2, Guido Tabellini3, Katherine Taylor4, Natalya Tikhonova5, Pervez Hoodbhoy6, William Easterly7, Richard Lamm8, Tu Weiming9 ...

This book pulls together experts in the fields of economics and Russian culture, all participants in the Samuel P. Huntington Memorial Symposium on Culture, Cultural Change and Economic Development, a follow-up to the 1999 Cultural Values and Human Progress Symposium at Harvard University. As the sequel to the 2001 volume Culture Matters, it discusses modernization, democratization, economic, and ... Read more

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This book pulls together experts in the fields of economics and Russian culture, all participants in the Samuel P. Huntington Memorial Symposium on Culture, Cultural Change and Economic Development, a follow-up to the 1999 Cultural Values and Human Progress Symposium at Harvard University. As the sequel to the 2001 volume Culture Matters, it discusses modernization, democratization, economic, and
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The Origins of Political Order

From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution

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A landmark history of the origins of modern democratic societies by one of our most important political thinkers.A New York Times Notable Book for 2011A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 TitleA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 titleVirtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institutions which included a central state that ... Read more

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A landmark history of the origins of modern democratic societies by one of our most important political thinkers.A New York Times Notable Book for 2011A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 TitleA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 titleVirtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institutions which included a central state that
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Capitalism

Competition, Conflict, Crises

by Anwar Shaikh ...

Orthodox economics operates within a hypothesized world of perfect competition in which perfect consumers and firms act to bring about supposedly optimal outcomes. The discrepancies between this model and the reality it claims to address are then attributed to particular imperfections in reality itself. Most heterodox economists seize on this fact and insist that the world is characterized by ... Read more

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Orthodox economics operates within a hypothesized world of perfect competition in which perfect consumers and firms act to bring about supposedly optimal outcomes. The discrepancies between this model and the reality it claims to address are then attributed to particular imperfections in reality itself. Most heterodox economists seize on this fact and insist that the world is characterized by
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Development Economics

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A landmark textbook on development economicsThe study of development in low-income countries is attracting more attention around the world than ever before. Yet until now there has been no comprehensive text that incorporates the recent huge strides made in the subject. Development Economics does precisely that in a clear, rigorous, and elegant fashion.Debraj Ray, one of the most accomplished ... Read more

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A landmark textbook on development economicsThe study of development in low-income countries is attracting more attention around the world than ever before. Yet until now there has been no comprehensive text that incorporates the recent huge strides made in the subject. Development Economics does precisely that in a clear, rigorous, and elegant fashion.Debraj Ray, one of the most accomplished
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The Origin of Capitalism

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**An expanded edition of the classic study on the history of capitalism—“a must read” for students of political theory and anyone interested in economic thought (Choice)How did the dynamic economic system we know as capitalism develop among the peasants and lords of feudal Europe?**In The Origin of Capitalism, a now-classic work of history, Ellen Meiksins Wood offers readers a clear and accessible ... Read more

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**An expanded edition of the classic study on the history of capitalism—“a must read” for students of political theory and anyone interested in economic thought (Choice)How did the dynamic economic system we know as capitalism develop among the peasants and lords of feudal Europe?**In The Origin of Capitalism, a now-classic work of history, Ellen Meiksins Wood offers readers a clear and accessible
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American Gridlock

Why the Right and Left Are Both Wrong - Commonsense 101 Solutions to the Economic Crises

by H. Woody Brock ...

A sensible solution to getting our economy back on trackPessimism is ubiquitous throughout the Western World as the pressing issues of massive debt, high unemployment, and anemic economic growth divide the populace into warring political camps. Right-and Left-wing ideologues talk past each other, with neither side admitting the other has any good ideas. In American Gridlock, leading economist and ... Read more

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A sensible solution to getting our economy back on trackPessimism is ubiquitous throughout the Western World as the pressing issues of massive debt, high unemployment, and anemic economic growth divide the populace into warring political camps. Right-and Left-wing ideologues talk past each other, with neither side admitting the other has any good ideas. In American Gridlock, leading economist and
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The Rise and Fall of the EAST

How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline

by Yasheng Huang, Ph.D. ...

The long history of China’s relationship between stability, diversity, and prosperity, and how its current leadership threatens this delicate balance“Riveting.”—Tunku Varadarajan, Wall Street JournalA Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2023Chinese society has been shaped by the interplay of the EAST—exams, autocracy, stability, and technology—from ancient times through the present. Beginning with the ... Read more

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How the World Became Rich

The Historical Origins of Economic Growth

by Mark Koyama, Jared Rubin ...

Most humans are significantly richer than their ancestors. Humanity gained nearly all of its wealth in the last two centuries. How did this come to pass? How did the world become rich?Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin dive into the many theories of why modern economic growth happened when and where it did. They discuss recently advanced theories rooted in geography, politics, culture, demography, and ... Read more

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Most humans are significantly richer than their ancestors. Humanity gained nearly all of its wealth in the last two centuries. How did this come to pass? How did the world become rich?Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin dive into the many theories of why modern economic growth happened when and where it did. They discuss recently advanced theories rooted in geography, politics, culture, demography, and
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Escape from Rome

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The gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern worldThe fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered one of the greatest disasters in history. But in this groundbreaking book, Walter Scheidel argues that Rome's dramatic collapse was actually the best thing that ever happened, clearing the path for Europe's economic rise and the creation of the modern age ... Read more

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