Institutions and Economic Performance
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Temin, Peter
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This is an intelligent and important book. Economists have discovered
that institutions (a.k.a. histories) are important determinants of economic
growth. The chapters in this volume provide a clear view of the
current research about this interconnection. That the authors are mainly
economists, joined by a few political scientists, means that the essays will
often be tough sledding for most interdisciplinary historians. The first
half of the book, entitled “History,” is the most accessible, and interdisciplinary
historians should read it.
Date issued
2009-10Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of EconomicsJournal
Journal of Interdisciplinary History
Publisher
MIT Press
Citation
Temin, Peter. “Institutions and Economic Performance. Edited by Elhanan Helpman (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2008) 624 pp. $55.00.” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 40.3 (2010): 438-439. © 2009 by The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Inc.
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ISSN
0022-1953
1530-9169