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Compare institutions, collective action, geography and historical contingency in explanations of growth.
Basic economic growth and externalities vocabulary helps. Start with the open textbook foundations; country comparisons later require careful causal reasoning.
A comparative case study with a causal diagram and competing explanations.
Start here if the background is new. Equivalent experience is enough.
Check samples and the limits of a comparison before interpreting growth data.
Use competing causal diagrams to examine explanations of institutional and economic change.
Steven Greenlaw, David Shapiro · Daniel MacDonald · reference
Growth, incentives and external effects
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Open the readingSteven Greenlaw, David Shapiro · Daniel MacDonald · reference
Growth, incentives and external effects
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Open the readingPrinciples of Economics 3e: economic growth. Distinguish measured output growth from a causal explanation of that growth.
Principles of Economics 3e: externalities. Identify an effect that a private price or decision does not fully account for.
Douglass North · book · 1990
Institutions, enforcement and commons-governance arguments
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Open the readingElinor Ostrom · book · 1990
Institutions, enforcement and commons-governance arguments
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Find a copyInstitutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance. Track how a rule, enforcement and an incentive enter the institutional explanation.
Governing the Commons. Choose one case and map participants, boundaries, monitoring and sanctions.
Elinor Ostrom · book · 1990
Institutions, enforcement and commons-governance arguments
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Find a copyGoverning the Commons. Choose one case and map participants, boundaries, monitoring and sanctions.
Daron Acemoglu · James Robinson · book · 2012
Comparative institutional explanation and collective-action objection
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Open the readingMancur Olson · book · 1965
Comparative institutional explanation and collective-action objection
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Open the readingWhy Nations Fail. Identify the mechanism in one comparison and consider a confound or rival explanation.
The Logic of Collective Action. Trace how individual incentives can prevent a collective outcome.
Editorial perspectives based on selected works, rather than author-endorsed reading lists.
An editorial comparison of the route’s selected accounts and evidence.
A curated synthesis cannot be neutral or exhaustive. Follow the primary sources when an interpretation matters.
An editorial reconstruction using the selected work of Daron Acemoglu.
This is not an author-endorsed syllabus. The reconstruction highlights selected works and may omit other commitments.
An editorial reconstruction using the selected work of Douglass North.
This is not an author-endorsed syllabus. The reconstruction highlights selected works and may omit other commitments.
An editorial reconstruction using the selected work of Elinor Ostrom.
This is not an author-endorsed syllabus. The reconstruction highlights selected works and may omit other commitments.
Background, different viewpoints, and further reading.
Track how a rule, enforcement and an incentive enter the institutional explanation.
Institutions, enforcement and commons-governance arguments
Choose one case and map participants, boundaries, monitoring and sanctions.
Institutions, enforcement and commons-governance arguments
Identify the mechanism in one comparison and consider a confound or rival explanation.
Comparative institutional explanation and collective-action objection
Use this account to revise your initial explanation and identify an unresolved question.
Selected chapters and argument
Inspect the research design and the assumptions behind its causal inference.
Research designs for institutional and local policy claims
Compare this account’s mechanism with the preceding reading; note where their predictions differ.
Selected chapters and argument
Trace how individual incentives can prevent a collective outcome.
Comparative institutional explanation and collective-action objection
Use this account to revise your initial explanation and identify an unresolved question.
Selected chapters and argument
Use one local policy example to compare the scope of its inference with a broad growth claim.
Research designs for institutional and local policy claims
Compare this account’s mechanism with the preceding reading; note where their predictions differ.
Selected chapters and argument
Extract one claim and distinguish the evidence supporting it from the author’s interpretation.
Selected chapters and argument
Use this account to revise your initial explanation and identify an unresolved question.
Selected chapters and argument
Work through the model, then identify a real-world institution or assumption the model leaves out.
Named section and worked examples
Identify an effect that a private price or decision does not fully account for.
Growth, incentives and external effects
Work through the model, then identify a real-world institution or assumption the model leaves out.
Named section and worked examples
Distinguish measured output growth from a causal explanation of that growth.
Growth, incentives and external effects
Work through the model, then identify a real-world institution or assumption the model leaves out.
Named section and worked examples
Work through the model, then identify a real-world institution or assumption the model leaves out.
Named section and worked examples
Work through the model, then identify a real-world institution or assumption the model leaves out.
Named section and worked examples
Work through the model, then identify a real-world institution or assumption the model leaves out.
Named section and worked examples
Use industrialisation cases to give economic comparisons a documented historical context.
Compare explanations of a price change with the role of institutions in economic life.